{"id":106912,"date":"2020-05-11T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/buildings-can-be-designed-to-withstand-earthquakes-why-doesnt-the-u-s-build-more-of-them"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:03:37","slug":"buildings-can-be-designed-to-withstand-earthquakes-why-doesnt-the-u-s-build-more-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/buildings-can-be-designed-to-withstand-earthquakes-why-doesnt-the-u-s-build-more-of-them","title":{"rendered":"Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn\u2019t the U.S. Build More of Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/buildings-can-be-designed-to-withstand-earthquakes-why-doesnt-the-u-s-build-more-of-them3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But at stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit \u2014 and for how long.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Want to get our daily newsletter California Today by email? <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsletters\/california-today\">Here\u2019s the sign-up<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/natural-hazards\/science-application-risk-reduction\/science\/haywired-scenario?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects\">study<\/a> last year found that a quarter of the buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area would be significantly damaged after a magnitude-7 earthquake, a disaster that would be compounded by the fact that nine out of every 10 commercial buildings and eight out of 10 homes in California are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/31\/us\/california-earthquake-insurance.html\">not insured<\/a> for earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But at stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit \u2014 and for how long. [Want to get our daily newsletter California Today by email? Here\u2019s the sign-up.] A federal study last year found that a quarter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}