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		q1w2 on April 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthq... Sky scrappers are the safest buildings to be in during an Earthquake. The most dangerous are the oldest much smaller masonry multilevel buildings.

reddit_clone on April 15, 2024 [–]

This is like flying commercial. Your brain knows it is statistically safest. But your palms sweat during takeoff and landing no matter.

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