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kallebooyesterday at 3:23 PM1 replyview on HN

And ironically in their press release for the re-open they said they re-built it with more disaster-proofing with the knowledge from the previous disaster...


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bobthepandayesterday at 5:46 PM

The emerging thing is that the earthquake caused a gas leak which later caused an explosion. Pipes will just go out of alignment during an earthquake, there isn’t a ton you can do to prevent that wholly.

My question is why upon calling in a gas leak, the mall was not immediately evacuated and cordoned off.

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