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2025 California Code
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DIVISION 2 - GEOLOGY, MINES AND MINING
CHAPTER 7.8 - Seismic Hazards Mapping
Section 2691.
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CA Pub Res Code § 2691 (2025)
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2691. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The effects of strong ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides, or other ground failure account for approximately 95 percent of economic losses caused by an earthquake.
(b) Areas subject to these processes during an earthquake have not been identified or mapped statewide, despite the fact that scientific techniques are available to do so.
(c) It is necessary to identify and map seismic hazard zones in order for cities and counties to adequately prepare the safety element of their general plans and to encourage land use management policies and regulations to reduce and mitigate those hazards to protect public health and safety.
(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 550, Sec. 3.)
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