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Topic: science

A collapsed apartment complex after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

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Saturday, 6/27, 09:38 PM

Why Caracas's Soft Ground Made the Quake So Deadly, and What It Means for LA

The worst of Venezuela's earthquake destruction fell where the ground beneath the buildings was softest — the same physics that flattened parts of Mexico City in 1985, and a hazard that Los Angeles, built on its own deep sedimentary basins, shares.

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