On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council adopted the nations strongest earthquake safety laws. This made the owners of about 15, 000 require to make their structure and outline stronger. A study shows that if Los Angeles is hit with a really large earthquake, that anywhere from 3,000 to 18,000 people can get killed, and there will be lots of money lost for damage of buildings and other things. It is also shown that the two weakest type of buildings are soft concrete buildings and wood apartments, with a very weak first floor. Many of the upgrades will cost $60,000 to $130,000 per building and lots of money for the bigger ones.
If they fail to complete the upgrades, there will be many deaths in the next earthquake, and many houses will be destroyed. Wood apartment buildings have seven years to fix their structure, and ones with brittle concrete buildings have twenty-five years. This law also allowed owners to make their rents a high $75 a month to help pay for these hefty costs. People with concrete buildings will have a much larger price to pay. Los Angeles decided to pass the law because in 2011, the fall of two concrete towers killed 133 people, which made them realize that they need to upgrade their standards.
The Los Angeles Times team found out that there are more than one thousand buildings that are made out of concrete, most in such places as Westwood and Ventura Boulevard, two very busy commercial districts. Only 68 of those thousand buildings were retrofitted. This helped Eric Garcetti begin a very expensive campaign to help with earthquake safety. Concrete buildings are the deadliest, because when they fall, they kill many people. Hopefully not too many people get injured from now on!
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