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Your bed, youll make sure its extra secured into the ceiling. youre probably not going to hang any pictures over your bed or put any bookshelves over your bed for fear youll be in bed when an earthquake happens and they could fall on you. the building structures, the building codes have been updated as time has gone on across the west coast. those building codes get stronger and stronger but thats for new structures. thats for new construction. a lot of time, as we were talking about earlier, th...

And were not close to it. thats the short term prediction about when it will happen. for california we go back to that. the last really big earthquake was 1906, san francisco. that was a magnitude 7.8. we anticipate, this is just looking at the historic record, we anticipate a magnitude 7.8 on the southern san andreas fault. that hadnt moved since around 1690. its not going to be pleasant. its going to be an ugly event. a lot of things will be spared because of those increased building codes sin...

User generated material thats come into our news room. it shows a massive crack in the alaska area. its fairly remote. some 300,000 people do live in anchorage. its the largest city in alaska. the earthquake was about seven miles away. we have seen many images of roads that look like this one thats collapsed and have been broken into several pieces. thats going to impedes first responders who are trying to get out right now to assess the damage, check local buildings, respond to fires. theres be...

Many of the structures crumbled because they were not built on a solid foundation. if theres a major quake along the west coast, the building codes have been sured up. what about the evacuation plans. the we need to get people out of here because theres a tsunami coming plans. are those up to standard? >> the evacuation plans, yes. we work on the evacuation plans a lot. those are a matter of trying to get peoples attention. we have been working here in california and in southern california sprea...

Roads. we see the buildings. its the way we build things. we dont build them well enough to with stand the energy that mother nature unleashes. >> the building codes were updated pretty significantly l los angeles archdiocese the north ridge quake. how do you build a road that can with stand something like this? >> thats one of the problems. one of the things about earthquake is we learn. we change the building code and try to improve things so we dont repeat a lot of same mistakes.

Fires at different points be. you wonder if there is going to be a real kind of need real, real change in the law, the fire code, the building codes to make sure that this is not going to keep happening and keep happening worse. >> so there was a big package of wildfire at the state level that passed last year. it talked a lot about the utility companies which are often blamed and are often the cause of a lot of these big fires and sort of how they are involved. in fact, there was part of that p...

Code, the building codes to make sure that this is not going to keep happening and keep happening worse. >> so there was a big package of wildfire at the state level that passed last year. it talked a lot about the utility companies which are often blamed and are often the cause of a lot of these big fires and sort of how they are involved. in fact, there was part of that package some sort of vegetation thinning that was part of that package as well. the big question that no one has touch and i ...

Higher pilings and more secure pilings, more resistant windows and the like it is is good but obviously not this good or prepared for this type of thing, not that alarming and increased cost. i am wondering whether you can enforce those stringent building requirements to get everybody on board. 15% to 20% more is not a small amount, but is a good investment to consider. >> it is a good investment. the about the roi. i thought he said 10% to 15% but whatever it might be, i think the return on inv...

>> you dont find something the first couple days, you get worried. >> were all heart sick. its unbelievable that this would happen here in this area. just -- i know a number of people that have a feeling of doom and gloom. >> shep, this is the sheriffs mobile command unit still on the property. the fbi mobile unit is still active. >> shepard: thanks, matt. the state of florida has some of the strongest building codes in all of the country. you might not know that from looking at the devastate th...

My partner and i, my uncle, russell king and i, decided we wanted to build a house on the panhandle. we wanted to build one on the coast. we knew it could be in harms way. just like when you get in the car and buckle your seat belt, youre trying to prepare for something that you nope never happens. we built a house with that thought in mind. we didnt dwell as much on the building codes although we comply with every code. we dwelled on the one that could survive a hurricane. could we build one th...