![]() At one corner of the building, the top two to three feet of brick wall fell inward, collapsing the ceiling framing above the jury room ( Figure 2). The Initial review also revealed a partial collapse of the exterior brick wall on the north elevation. Most obviously, the top of the south east corner at the front of the building (east face), along with its attached dental cornice, collapsed outward to the sidewalk below ( Figure 1). At 3:20 AM, August 24, 2014, the Napa County Historic Courthouse was severely damaged in the magnitude 6.0 South Napa Earthquake, which induced nearby ground motion readings indicating spectral accelerations ranging from 0.4g to 1.7g for low period structures.
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