1
0

San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble


 invite response                
2018 Apr 17, 10:35am   1,444 views  5 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html?ref=patrick.net

San Francisco lives with the certainty that the Big One will come. But the city is also putting up taller and taller buildings clustered closer and closer together because of the state’s severe housing shortage. Now those competing pressures have prompted an anxious rethinking of building regulations. Experts are sending this message: The building code does not protect cities from earthquakes nearly as much as you might think.

It’s been over a century — Wednesday marks the 112th anniversary — since the last devastating earthquake and subsequent inferno razed San Francisco. Witnesses on the morning of April 18, 1906, described the city’s streets as rising and falling like a ribbon carried by the wind.

The violent shaking ignited a fire that lasted three days, destroying 500 city blocks and 28,000 buildings.

Comments 1 - 5 of 5        Search these comments

1   Ceffer   2018 Apr 17, 10:56am  

Looting IHLs will roam the streets like hyena packs, the homeless will start taking scalps and using them for toilet paper! Technocrats will fall howling from the swaying towers and penthouses!

Die, SF, Die the Death Of A Million Tattoos!
2   Goran_K   2018 Apr 17, 11:02am  

San Francisco is one 9.0 from Cannibal Anarchy. Leftist/Democrats have zero foundational values and doubtfully could feed themselves without a Whole Foods within a 10 minute walk.
3   RC2006   2018 Apr 17, 11:14am  

Maybe they could connect them all with lots of sky bridges this would add extra stability and make it so people could avoid the homeless and filth on the streets.
4   zzyzzx   2018 Apr 17, 11:28am  

Perhaps the real problem here is the building codes?
5   Y   2018 Apr 17, 12:52pm  

Hey, it's a sanctuary city.
Who gives a fuck?

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions