Filed under: Westchester/Playa del Rey Theme Building Gets a Good Shake By Adrian Glick Kudler May 5, 2010, 2:30pm PDT That earthquake-mitigating 1.2 million pounds of steel on LAX's Theme building got a work out yesterday when UCLA's Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation conducted an earthquake test on the freshly rehabilitated building. Conclusion: it can withstand an 8.0. [Daily Breeze, previously]