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Whittier is also home to the Buckner Building. 250k square feet, abandoned after the 1964 earthquake and left to rot. In other words, a perfect place for indoor

• pizza 12y ago
  wow
• frik 12y ago
  Why do they build such tall buildings in an earth quake area? Why is such an destroyed inhabited building still around 50 years later? In other parts of the world there would be many smaller buildings and inhabited ugly buildings would be removed. I like the creative use of the building in the video, great work!
  • btilly 12y ago
    Why do they build such tall buildings in an earth quake area? The basic answer is that they had no idea what kind of earthquake was possible there. That earthquake is #3 on the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Largest_earthquakes_by_magnitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Largest_ea... and was the second megathrust earthquake recorded since the geological knowledge existed to figure out what they were. (The first being Chile in 1960.)
    • frik 12y ago
      For the destroyed building yes. But they built a newer taller building right next to it - that's the one in linked article.
      • wtbob 12y ago
        > But they built a newer taller building right next to it - that's the one in linked article. I think that building also dates back to the war.