Bringing old building stock into line with modern standards of earthquake-resistant design is a daunting and expensive task. But the damage caused by the Kobe earthquake shows that doing nothing will be even more costly.
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Chandler, A. Engineering design lessons from Kobe. Nature 387, 227–229 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/387227a0
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