countries must be able tobounce back from shocks. Painful experience has led Japan toinvest in resilience. Bridges and buildings are retrofitted to make themearthquake-proof. After a big quake hit Kobe in 1995, leaving many without water, the city built an underground ...
Earthquake in Sichuan destroyed so many school buildings and claimed so many lives. For this reason, taking Japan as a case, the paper explores its laws, standards as well as specific regulations on school building safety against earthquake, identifies its experiences, and finally tries to provide...
Crawl under a table or shelter in a doorway if inside, or try to shelter somewhere that falling glass, walls and poles won’t hit you if outside, e.g. a park with lots of open space, or a large, modern building (likely to be earthquake-proof).Don’t move until the shaking has ...
He added that, "Japan, one of the most seismically-active places in the world, has stressed earthquake preparedness and regulations to make buildings quake-proof, but it has done less about potential flood disasters." On a municipal level, hazard maps highlighting potential flood zones and landsl...
the maintenance of such buildings is not easy and often requires advanced technologies and significant costs. In 2013, a revision to the Act for Promotion of the Earthquake Proof Retrofit of Buildings made it mandatory for buildings of a certain size to conduct seismic diagnosis. As a result, ...
Concrete buildings disintegrated, steel buildings looked like squashed tin cans, the sub-way became a mine disaster and 550 yards of the Hanshin Superhighway toppled over to one side, its massive posts reduced to gravel. The construction was earthquake-proof, they say, meaning it was built to ...
Japan and Earthquake/Tsunami Mitigation Geography 312 – Term Paper Alexandra Bradshaw – 301144682 March 29th, 2012 On March 11th 2011, Japan suffered a 9.0...
As a super-tall structure, Torch Tower must exhibit exceptional earthquake-proof and seismic resistance capabilities. To meet this requirement, the design team developed a damped braced tube system that combines high rigidity with significant damping properties. ...
A powerful earthquake can induce long-period ground motions in locations far from its epicenter. When such vibrations resonate with the cycles of tall buildings’ swaying, it results in significant structure movement over a long duration, thus heightening the likelihood of damage. ...
antinuclear, contaminated food, contaminated oceans, earthquake, Fukushima, Fukushima children, Japan, Japanese farmers, nuclear power, radiation Leave a comment Japan Times: Discharges of Fukushima nuclear material into Pacific “have effectively contaminated the sea” — Melted reactor cores will burn ...