CBS News – Sacramento Engineer: Timing Of Napa Earthquake Prevented Fatalities

NAPA (CBS13) — As cleanup continued from Sunday’s Napa earthquake, engineers were assessing the damage done.

Bob Glasgow is a structural engineer from Sacramento who spent his day walking the streets of Downtown Napa to get a good look at the damage.

“Many building owners don’t realize that pretty much all buildings even built to code today are not earthquake-proof,” he said. “They are designed to get people out safely, that’s it.”

He specializes in retrofitting buildings to withstand large earthquakes. He says a lot of the damage done in Napa was from ornamental facades on the older buildings that fell off during the shaking.