Major quake could shake Southern California schools off their foundations - San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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A magnitude-7 or greater earthquake in Southern California would level obsolete school buildings and kill hundreds of students, if California officials don't act soon to retrofit old facilities, an earthquake expert said Wednesday. The chilling words came during the 2010 Earthquake Symposium held at UCLA. Engineers, seismologists and government officials converged on the Westwood campus to discuss how the Los Angeles area could survive quakes of the same intensity as those which rocked Haiti in January and Chile in February. The news comes as California schools are struggling to balance budgets, according to school officials.