There ought to be a law! How many times have we said and heard this desire? From his extensive experience with crafting, advocating, and implementing many of California's earthquake safety laws, author Robert A. Olson takes the reader into the process by answering the critical question: How are earthquake safety requirements conceived and made into laws?To illustrate the process, he draws upon history to show how the policy stage was set immediately after the 1933 Long Beach earthq...