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Building officials are looking into creating a list of residential buildings throughout Los Angeles that are especially vulnerable to collapsing during a major earthquake. The City Council’s planning committee told officials Tuesday to report back in about two months on …

A Los Angeles city councilman wants to find buildings that could collapse in an earthquake. The Los Angeles Times says Tom LaBonge is proposing a city inventory of so-called “soft-story” buildings – those where the top stories could collapse onto …