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  2. Despite active quake year, some California suburbs refuse to ...

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    Read more:Los Angeles' building earthquake retrofit data have been outdated for years, ... the earthquake seriously damaged or destroyed about 200 soft-story buildings across the Los Angeles area.

  3. Before and after pictures show scale of devastation caused by ...

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    At least 2,818 buildings have collapsed, including a 2,000-year-old castle and a mosque dating back to 1247 Before and after pictures show scale of devastation caused by Turkey earthquake - OLD ...

  4. Category : Buildings and structures destroyed by earthquakes

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    Buildings and structures destroyed by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake (1 C, 5 P) Buildings and structures destroyed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (8 P) Buildings and structures destroyed by the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake (13 P)

  5. Earthquake scientists are learning warning signs of the 'big ...

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    The advisory came after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the southern island of Kyushu. ... Some 620,000 buildings would be critically damaged or collapse, including an estimated 100 hospitals ...

  6. 1994 Northridge earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The earthquake damaged several buildings and destroyed all communications, including telephone lines, and caused computer systems to shut down. Two CSUN students died at the Northridge Meadows Complex along with 14 other residents. [56]

  7. Earthquake engineering - Wikipedia

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    This mode of ground failure, termed lateral spreading, is a principal cause of liquefaction-related earthquake damage. [43] Beams and pier columns diagonal cracking, 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Severely damaged building of Agriculture Development Bank of China after 2008 Sichuan earthquake: most of the beams and pier columns are sheared.

  8. Buildings flattened as 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu

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    The United States Geological Survey reported at least four aftershocks around Port Vila - with magnitudes ranging from 4.7 to 5.5 - in the two hours after the first earthquake. The first quake hit ...

  9. Earthquake aftershocks halt the demolition of a leaning ...

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    The red building, about 10 stories tall and inclined over a street in the city of Hualien, has become an iconic image from the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that also buried people under boulders at ...