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Pillar three: What protects you. March twenty-eighth, nineteen sixty-four. The Great Alaska Earthquake. Magnitude nine point two. The ground shook for four minutes. Cities collapsed. But out of the destruction… new codes were written. Safety standards. Engineering protocols. The way we build our skyscrapers… our bridges… our homes… Changed because the earth broke on this date. You walk under structures today… that exist because of this failure. Your safety is based on a disaster. In eighteen nin