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Many San Francisco buildings are placed in a zone called the liquefaction zone. There are maps that show which areas will suffer liquefaction in the event of an
by partycoder 10y ago
Many San Francisco buildings are placed in a zone called the liquefaction zone. There are maps that show which areas will suffer liquefaction in the event of an earthquake.
- Zhenya 10y agoMap for reference: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=19TDkFjIeO9wD5snoxkbMQBjsjUg&hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=19TDkFjIeO9wD5s...
- crazy2be 10y agoFor those curious, this is a (crappier) map of the whole bay: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFBALiqufactionMap.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFBALiqufactionMap.j...
- aristus 10y agoHi-res PDF of that bay map: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/of00-444_8b.pdf http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/of00-444_8b.pdf
- mcguire 10y agoConveniently, the Millennium Tower is in the middle of it.