Los Angles County officials voted to update the county's building code and require all non-ductile high-rises to be retrofitted within 10 years. The decision comes after an earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria last month.
March 1, 2023, 3:53 PMAn earthquake is caused when two blocks of Earth's crust slip past each other on a fault plane, according to the U.S. Geological Survey., officials in Los Angles County voted Wednesday to update the county's building code and require all non-ductile high-rises to be retrofitted within 10 years.
While Los Angeles County building standards were previously updated to ensure new construction can withstand seismic activity, non-ductile, concrete high-rises are prone to brittle behavior during an earthquake, according to the board of supervisors. Public works must also submit a report to the board with an inventory analysis of all soft-story residential structures in county incorporated areas or owned or overseen by the county that have not been seismically retrofitted, including the number of units within each structure.
The board of supervisors said the county must urgently retrofit and repair vulnerable structures to prevent as much loss of life as possible in the event of an earthquake. A United States Geological Survey simulation of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Southern California predicted such an event could result in nearly 1,800 deaths and 50,000 injuries.
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