LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Los Angeles' city council is expected to pass the country's most stringent earthquake retrofit safety rules Friday.
The ordinance would require up to 15,000 buildings in the city deemed "seismically hazardous" to undergo extensive improvements to secure them in earthquake situations. Concrete buildings and wooden apartment complexes with weak lower stories are primary targets of the rules; over 65 people died in such structures in the city's last two earthquakes.