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January 14, 2021
Published October 14, 2019 • Updated on October 15, 2019 at 11:22 am The Bay Area will never forget how many lives were lost and how much damage was done during the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. Since then, the technology industry has taken on the challenge of making our workplaces, hospitals and houses more earthquake safe. After the historic quake, Bay Area engineers went to work designing new technology to eventually anchor the buildings of today. Buildings like...
March 15, 2011
Earthquake-proof buildings? a lot of the buildings in tokyo are still standing. then some buildings, you i take a country like haiti that was flattened like a pancake. can you build earthquake-proof buildings? you can to the maximum -- [ inaudible ] here in sendai i would say -- [ inaudible ] there are a lot of us -- a lot of highrise buildings, i didnt see any major damage what . for the buildings here performed well in sendai and tokyo, of course. theres a lot of technology available. japan is...
March 15, 2011
A lot of the buildings in tokyo are still standing. then some buildings, you i take a country like haiti that was flattened like a pancake. can you build earthquake-proof buildings? you can to the maximum -- [ inaudible ] here in sendai i would say -- [ inaudible ] there are a lot of us -- a lot of highrise buildings, i didnt see any major damage what . for the buildings here performed well in sendai and tokyo, of course. theres a lot of technology available. japan is definitely famous for that....
March 11, 2011
And all the evacuation plans were made for. >> gentlemen, i know you both work on tsunamis, but you both have some understanding of earthquakes. i want you to see this video, its called base isolation. kelly and michael, wonder if we can show this base isolation video. its a crash table crash in the university of california, san diego, take a look at this. i dont know if you can see it, professor liu. i know you can, professor fritz. this is what hala was saying earlier. buildings built to with ...