INTRODUCTION

The phenomenal city of San Francisco, famous for the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Tower, is a bustling city of Northern California which houses the spectacle - Transamerica Pyramid. Though, it no longer houses the headquarter of the Transamerica Corporation, the building has retained its association by being depicted in the company logo.

A 48-storey, modernist architectural skyscraper, boasts to be the soaring 2nd tallest building in whole of San Francisco which was constructed 51 years ago! With a height of 260 m, the building houses multiple retail and office spaces.

Basis estimation by seismologists, there is a 72% probability of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake in San Francisco’s Bay Area in the near future. Earthquake hazard is spread throughout San Francisco Bay Area. There is a 3 out of 4 chances of the Bay Area to be struck by disastrous earthquakes in the next 30 years. U.S. Geological Survey names the prime ‘Earth Movers’ as the San Andreas Fault, the Calaveras Fault and the Hayward Fault.

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