Originally Posted by
Super_BQ
I think there will be a lot of finger pointing and blaming of inspectors and engineers. People automatically assumed that when a building survived the Sept 4th quake and has passed all inspections, that it will be safe to handle another major earthquake. The Feb 22nd earthquake was nothing like the Sept one as expert analysis have found 2 times the gravity vertical down force in the meter readings (as mentioned in the articles posted by ralf). The public doesn't realise this and assume that 6.3 is less than 7.1 and therefore the buildings should not of had the same amount of damage.
We all have to wait to see what the appointed earthquake commissioner report will say. Meanwhile, everything is just gossip.