the last major earthquake in texas was on april 14, 1995.
when was the last major earthquake in texas?
april 14 , 1995
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in the 1950s, lyall holmes was part of an engineering elite at canterbury university that questioned whether standard building practices of the time were delivering buildings that could withstand a major earthquake. 





























multi-storey buildings were then constructed using a reinforced concrete frame of columns and beams with brick infill panels. holmes and his colleagues believed that in a major earthquake these rigid outer walls, which were poorly connected to the relatively flexible inner frame, would take the brunt of the seismic forces in a major earthquake, causing them to "shatter, fall and destroy the building.",
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