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Engineering earthquake resistant structures
How engineering can improve the chances of survival from an earthquake. Awareness of the hazards caused by earthquakes is probably higher in California than anywhere else in the world. Many buildings and other structures have been strengthened or designed and built to be earthquake-resistant.
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