But it's extremely unlikely that anything of that magnitude could happen here. All of the major bridges that cross San Francisco Bay, including the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, have concrete buffers, called fenders, that surround the columns supporting the bridge.
All of the major bridges across San Francisco Bay have undergone an extensive earthquake retrofits in the past 20 years, Ney said.
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