Resilience by Design
Mayoral Seismic Safety Task Force (City of Los Angeles) | January 7th, 2016
Resilience by Design presents the recommendations of the Mayoral Seismic Safety Task Force, the members of which are listed in the Acknowledgements Section of this document. These
recommendations address the city’s greatest vulnerabilities from earthquakes with significant and attainable solutions to:
• Protect the lives of our residents
• Improve the capacity of the City to respond to earthquakes
• Prepare the City to recover quickly from earthquakes
• Protect the economy of the City and all of Southern California.
The Mayoral Seismic Task Force evaluated four areas of seismic vulnerability, namely:
• Pre-1980 “ non-ductile reinforced concrete” buildings
• Pre-1980 “soft-first- story ” buildings
• Water system infrastructure ( including impact on firefighting capability)
• Telecommunications infrastructure
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