RE: Earthquakes in Croatia - deaths caused by unregulated buildings?
January 17, 2021 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2021 at 3:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
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Poorly constructed buildings will, ofc, fall down in an earthquake. Well constructed traditional buildings will too, at a lesser rate, and very well constructed earthquake resistant buildings also have some limit - but it's all very clear...and very demonstrably clear, that the design of a building and the quality of it's construction are related to whether those buildings are more or less safe in an earthquake, but also day to day.
Quote:Stanford engineers have built and tested an earthquake-resistant house that stayed staunchly upright even as it shook at three times the intensity of the destructive 1989 Loma Prieta temblor 25 years ago.https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/octo...01614.html
Poorly constructed buildings will, ofc, fall down in an earthquake. Well constructed traditional buildings will too, at a lesser rate, and very well constructed earthquake resistant buildings also have some limit - but it's all very clear...and very demonstrably clear, that the design of a building and the quality of it's construction are related to whether those buildings are more or less safe in an earthquake, but also day to day.
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