Sentence examples for Landmark earthquake from inspiring English sources

By contrast, San Francisco, which struggled likewise with its own building standards following the Loma Prieta earthquake, passed a landmark earthquake safety ordinance in 2013.

LaBonge's motion came after San Francisco passed a landmark earthquake safety ordinance this year that requires about 3,000 wooden apartment buildings to be strengthened.

The policy prompted owners to support San Francisco's landmark earthquake safety ordinance last year that will require about 3,000 wooden apartment buildings to be retrofitted. .

LaBonge's motion came after San Francisco passed a landmark earthquake safety ordinance this year that requires about 3,000 wooden apartment buildings to be strengthened there.

For years to come, people who enter the Hall of Justice will be reminded of the role those officials played in turning the downtown Los Angeles landmark from an earthquake-damaged husk back into a law enforcement hub.

The years in between are also dotted with historic landmarks – the 1905 San Francisco earthquake, the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic, the development of Einstein's theory – but although these events touch the lives of Smiley's characters, sometimes directly, theirs is an interior drama, played out within the stifling confines of a marriage.

More than half of Bagan's pagodas were seriously damaged in a July 1975 earthquake that sent the landmark Buphaya Pagoda tumbling into the Ayeyarwaddy.

Some of the bricks laid at the Smullen-Bailey house are from the Harvey Apartments, a 99-year-old Whittier landmark that was demolished because of earthquake damage.

The towers, which were once almost demolished by the city and then later designated a national landmark, were damaged slightly in the 1994 earthquake and again during a 2008 windstorm.

When Nepal was hit with a powerful earthquake the tremor shattered lives, landmarks and the very landscape of the country.

All you have to do is walk through the State Capitol in Albany to feel the earthquake touched off last week by the landmark ruling on education aid from State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse.