Posted on 11/22/2019 10:38:47 AM PST by BenLurkin
An earthquake safety revolution is spreading along the streets and back alleys of Los Angeles, as steel frames and strong walls appear inside the first-story parking garages of thousands of apartment buildings.
The construction is designed to fix one of the most dangerous earthquake risks: Wood apartment buildings collapsing because the skinny poles propping up parking at the ground level are not strong enough to withstand the shaking. Now, 27% of Los Angeles’ 11,400 dangerous wood-frame apartments are retrofitted to better resist earthquakes.
Retrofit progress has been steady across the city, a Times analysis of city records shows. Among the regions with the most “soft-story” buildings, 29% of the apartments on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley are retrofitted, and 26% have been completed in central L.A., which includes Hollywood, Mid-City and Koreatown. The Westside, Valley and central L.A. regions are home to more than 80% of the soft-story buildings in the city.
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Apartments?
Ghetto boxes?
Closets, caskets?
Worker harder and buy a real home if you can.
A real home is built on land.
The only thing a real homeowner shares with other tenants is AIR.
Yeah but will they float as Kaliforinia sinks into the sea?
Most apartments are more like civilian worker barracks. One man’s floor is another man’s ceiling. I’d live in an RV before dealing with being housed in an apartment compound.
The Northridge earthquake was 1994.
The retrofit has not been quick.
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