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Originally Posted by Russic
Probably a mixture of most of the world being quite poor and poor countries populated with cheaply constructed buildings (which appears to be the case here). A 7.0 would do crazy damage to a city built to withstand earthquakes, I can't imagine what it could do to a country made of poorly constructed concrete buildings.
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Yeah. Those buildings look like they would fall over during the best of times let alone in a 7.0 earthquake
Calgary's not on a fault line (I don't think) so our buildings are ok. The World Series earthquake was a 7.0 and all buildings seemed to be ok. It was the bridges that collapsed.