Facilities that cannot remain opera...

Facilities that cannot remain operational after a "code-level" earthquake must shut by 2008

according to January 2001, more than 450 acute-care facilities in California are required to submit a seismic evaluation and compliance plan detailing by what mode some 2,600 hospital buildings will be able to withstand a "code-level" earthquake, which is defined as an incident with a 10 percent probability of happening each 100 years.

An on the same level more foreboding requirement takes meaning in 2008: general acute-care facilities that are in danger of collapse following so a quake must be