It isn't a surprise that the San Francisco would better handle a strong earthquakes with magnitudes of 6 and over, but that isn't the entire picture, says one geophysicist.
"We are less vulnerable to damage in an earthquake, but we are much more likely to get the earthquake than they are," geophysicist Ross Stein said."It's like a bomb waiting to go off. We would see potentially catastrophic failures," Skip Walker said.
"Well, the old pre-1990 buildings didn't have enough reinforcing steel and quite a few of (the Nob and Telegraph hills buildings. They didn't have enough steel, so they're really not ductile." Several factors contributed to the staggering death and injury toll: the old lakebed the city is planted on, the long duration of shaking, and a lack of buildings not properly built.
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