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Report: San Francisco Bay Area falls behind on quake safety

The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday that there are up to 3,000 brittle concrete buildings in San Francisco, yet the city doesn't have a list of where they are located. The building type is one of the deadliest in quakes.
SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 06: Rows of houses stand in front of the San Francisco skyline June 6, 2007 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A newspaper analysis finds the San Francisco Bay Area is falling behind on efforts to retrofit buildings that are vulnerable to collapse during a major earthquake.

The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday that there are up to 3,000 brittle concrete buildings in San Francisco, yet the city doesn't have a list of where they are located. The building type is one of the deadliest in quakes.

Across the bay in Oakland, there are nearly 2,000 possibly vulnerable wood-frame apartment buildings at risk of collapse in a seismic event — and there is no law to require them to be fixed. And the newspaper says San Jose doesn't even have a list of its more than 1,000 apartment buildings thought to be at risk.

The Times says Southern California cities have taken the lead statewide in seismic safety requirements.

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