Seattle's Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment
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City where more than a THOUSAND buildings could crumble in earthquake
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Seattle is in a seismically active area known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone , and a flurry of earthquakes in recent months has experts worried a major event could be on its way.
Tuesday marked the 60-year anniversary since a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit western Washington in 1965 .
The city does not mandate retrofitting because the process is extremely expensive.
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