"Chris Poland" is an American guitarist, best known for being a former member of thrash metal music/thrash metal band Megadeth. He is currently the guitarist of jazz fusion band OHM (band)/OHM, and is known for having appeared on several projects and albums from a variety of different genres.

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There's very little mitigation going on, and it's because it's so expensive to do, just like it was so expensive to fix the levees. So I think we would have the same reaction: Why didn't we fix those buildings? Why didn't we fix the infrastructure?

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The Bay Area is probably better prepared than most urban areas for a natural disaster. But it's not prepared enough.

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The pressure on the engineering community at that time was to prove they could design buildings that wouldn't be damaged by earthquakes. We are still doing that.

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We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.

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The simulations show us where the hot spots are, and they show us how we should prioritize the strengthening of buildings. That's the most important thing.

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