It's hard to account for everything when building. If they built to withstand a 7.8 (not sure how possible that is) who is to say a bigger quake will never happen?
My heart goes out to all the many who are suffering there now.
4 posted on 05/16/2008 7:27:54 PM PDT by TigersEye
(Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)