Friday, March 11, 2011
Earthquake Proof Office Buildings Doing Exactly What They Were Designed To Do
When I see things like this, Miyagi have hope for you. I wish more nations had the forsight that Japan does to prepare for things like this while battling radioactive monsters. I can assure you that L.A. is nowhere near as safe a place to be if a similar sized earthquake hit it.
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Japan is a country with an exceptional potential to rebuild itself.
let's hope they'll never have to buil New Tokyo.
While I think it's fantastic that the design keeps the buildings from collapsing, tell me you wouldn't need clean pants if you were in a sky scraper and it started swaying.
@TS, not really. High buildings have shock absorbing structures. You feel earthquakes stronger in medium/small sized buildings.
Everytime I see pictures of this kind of disaster it reminds me of the 1985 earthquake in México.
I am just happy it wasn't Akira or Godzilla making all the mischief. Earthquakes we can recover from. That freakin' lizard always comes around at the wrong time.
New Zealand and Japan lead the world in earthquake proof buildings but sadly that hasn't stopped us both getting hit hard recently. All our achievements are little more than rubble before the might of mother nature.
The last big earthquake I was in (not as big as this one, of course) I had just parked my car when it hit. I sat there in my bouncing car watching lampposts flopping side to side like they were made of rubber and watching the glass windows of the building in front of me rippling like they were sheets on a clothes line. Completely bizarre!!
New follower here! Wow. Awesome pictures on your cave of cooL! The earthquake in japan really shook me up. Can't imagine that happening in LA. We don't have earthquake proof buildings like the one in the video. (Shudder). Hope they start working on it soon!
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