Brick buildings damaged or destroyed in previous earthquakes
A car is seen covered in bricks following a reported 6.0 earthquake on August 24, 2014 in Napa, California.
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Bricks fall from an unretrofitted building during the 2014 Napa earthquake.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Resuce workers remove bricks from crushed cars near the remains of a collapsed two-story building in Paso Robles, Calif., following an earthquake Monday, Dec. 22, 2003.The Pan Jewelers building was one of the buildings that collapsed during the quake.
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Resuce workers remove bricks from crushed cars near the remains of a collapsed two-story building in Paso Robles, Calif., following an earthquake Monday, Dec. 22,2003. The Pan Jewelers building was one of the buildings that collapsed during the quake.
(SPENCER WEINER / Los Angeles Times)
Rescue workers uncover cars after a powerful earthquake collapsed buildings and killed at least two people, Monday, Dec. 22, 2003, in Paso Robles, Calif.
(Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters Roger Colombo, right, and Josh Cazier search through a car trapped under the roof at Pan Jewelers after Monday’s earthquake destroyed several buildings in Paso Robles, Calif.
(NICK UT / AP)
The fourth-story wall of this brick building on Bluxome Street near Sixth and Townsend collapsed onto the street, crushing five people in their cars in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. No one in the building was killed. U.S. Geological Survey.
(U.S. Geological Survey)
Greenleaf Avenue, the heart of Whittier’s business district, was devastated in the 1987 quake. (Rick Corrales / Los Angeles Times)
Gus Koutroulis, left, mayor of Tehachapi, points out earthquakedamage to visitors (from left) Gov Warren, Sen Knowland and Maj. Gen. Walter M. Robertson. 1952 file photo.
(file photo / Los Angeles Times)
Damage at the mail intersection of Tehachapi following earthquake.
(Los Angeles Times)
This 1933 photo made available by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the ruins of St. Anthony’s Church in Long Beach, Calif., after a massive earthquakestruck on March 10, 1933.
(T.J. Maher / U.S. Geological Survey)
Damage to the Hotel Californian after the earthquake in Santa Barbara. (Los Angeles Times)
A car in Santa Barbara damaged by the June 29, 1925 earthquake.
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June 29, 1925: Truck crushed by falling brick walls on State Street in Santa Barbara following the 6.8 earthquake.
