Unsafe buildings biggest risk in Delhi's quake zone

Apart from the usual old-age and decay, what threatens most buildings in Delhi is structural fragility. They are simply built badly. Every third resident in the city lives in a poorly provisioned home in an ‘unauthorised’ or ‘unauthorised-regularised’ neighbourhood where houses have been built without any sanctioned plan or design.

from Hindustan Times - columns https://ift.tt/2OZe2jG