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 didn't see any major damage what . for the buildings here performed well in sendai and tokyo, of course. there's a lot of technology available. japan is definitely famous for that. so is the united states too by the way. the use of shock absorbing devices we call dampers or base isolation, essentially