(January 17, 2021 at 3:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Enjoy.
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.
Well, yes, but I am not sure what those regulations those buildings in Petrinja and Sisak supposedly disobeyed actually say. And I have no means to evaluate whether they are sensible. So, you think the Croatian government is indeed too lax when it comes to enforcing building regulations?
