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Dr Kurtulus Atasever, a structural and earthquake engineer, met me to point some of them out.

“Our seismic codes are only a minimum requirement,” says Sissy Nikolaou, research earthquake engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Keith Porter, a nationally renowned earthquake engineer and research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, said Ridgecrest’s result should not be seen as a “victory lap.”

That ability could power a potent early warning system—a possibility that Yutaka Nakamura, an earthquake engineer at a private company in Japan, had already begun to pursue to improve bullet train warnings.

Anna Lang, a California-based earthquake engineer with Miyamoto’s firm, said the building probably suffered severe side-to-side shaking.