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Earthquake-Design Issue Chokes McCracken County, Ky., Construction.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2002
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 25--Safety versus practicality is at the heart of an earthquake-design issue that is choking McCracken County construction and has engineers, home builders, seismologists and state regulators grappling for solutions.
About 120 experts from across the nation met last week in Lexington to discuss the problem, stemming from U.S. Geological Survey seismic-risk maps that are five times more conservative than just a few years ago. The maps are one basis for much tougher 2002 Kentucky building codes ...
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