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  • Engineering for earthquakes

    Ramani Aswath

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    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    The principle of engineering structures for an earthquake zone is a simple one: ’Earthquakes do not kill people, structures do.”
    Unsurprisingly, when large earthquakes happen in remote locations the human death toll is often close to zero with minimal economic impact. When large earthquakes happen in built up places, the results are far more variable. In locations such as California, Chile, Japan or New Zealand the number of people killed is generally small, but in other locations (China, Pakistan, Haiti) the death rate is often very high because the housing stock isn’t as earthquake resistant.
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  • Kavi Desai

    Member • Dec 25, 2017

    A.V.Ramani
    Quote:
    The principle of engineering structures for an earthquake zone is a simple one: ’Earthquakes do not kill people, structures do.”
    Unsurprisingly, when large earthquakes happen in remote locations the human death toll is often close to zero with minimal economic impact. When large earthquakes happen in built up places, the results are far more variable. In locations such as California, Chile, Japan or New Zealand the number of people killed is generally small, but in other locations (China, Pakistan, Haiti) the death rate is often very high because the housing stock isn’t as earthquake resistant.
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    Very well said.
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  • Kavi Desai

    Member • Dec 25, 2017

    There is no such thing as earthquake-proof structures, but we can make structures which can resist earthquake up to some extent. The below article has very well explained that how the orientation of buildings is behaving during earthquakes.
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