California laws that require public school buildings to withstand strong earthquakes, was legislated in the wake of the Long Beach earthquake (M6.3) that hit the Southern California region in April, 1933, in which 70 schools were destroyed and another 120 were severely damaged. Fortunately, the earthquake occurred a few hours after school-hour so lost of school children lives was minimum.
Sichuan should learn the lesson from its recent M8.0 quake, where hundreds of students were buried under collapsed school buildings.
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