> but in that picture, you can plainly see a bunch of other buildings in the background that also have "withstood" the quake?

Well the OP title is actually "...with almost no damage," which is not something you could tell from a distance in picture. Also, presumably, not every building in town failed to follow the building codes.

But in any case, that's nitpicking that misses the point: a building which presumably closely followed the building codes got through with little to no damage.