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How safe will your building be in an earthquake? A bill in the California Legislature would require cities to create inventories of potentially vulnerable buildings. It has passed through seven committees and is now in the Senate Appropriations Committee, where it faces uncertain passage for budget reasons. The bill would create extra work — and costs — for local municipal building departments.

Assemblymen Adrin Nazarian, who introduced the bill, says the cost of identifying weak buildings is worth it.

“When the ground starts shaking, you can either pray your building is safe or know your building is seismically safe,” Mr. Nazarian said by email.

Often the public is not informed that a building is not to code until after a problem has been fixed. Last month we published an article about high-rise buildings in San Francisco with a seismic flaw that make them potentially vulnerable to collapse in a very big earthquake.