"The top four floors of San Jose, California’s, eight-story Martin Luther King Jr. Library, which serves as the public library system’s main branch and the San Jose State University library, were temporarily closed to reshelve books after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit the city October 30."The building suffered no major damage but the building did intentionally sway back and forth to absorb the shock of the quake and as a result 300,000 books fell of the shelves!
They are almost all picked up.
American Library Association article
Image above of a bookstore after the Bay Area's 1989 Point Loma quake by J.K. Nakata of the U.S. Geological Survey
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