Many/most earthquake deaths could be prevented through wider implementation of earthquake-resistant buildings—but even ... Hang mirrors and pictures and pictures on closed hooks.

And if that movement is more than the buildings can tolerate, they could collapse. And that shaking is what we design for.” “We cannot design buildings to be earthquake-proof. We make them ...

“The houses affected by this earthquake are required to use earthquake-resistant ... of buildings, causing the concrete structures to collapse and roofs to cave in. Photos showed broken scraps ...

[Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images ... buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter. It is low-cost and environmentally friendly, and though it isn’t naturally earthquake-proof ...

Just from her initial observations of the damage, Faure Walker said the destroyed buildings she sees in pictures and video seem to lack basic earthquake-resistant structures, like reinforced ...

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full ...

The images are chilling ... and that the reasons for building-specific failures may never be known because of the scale of the damage. They add that making each nation’s infrastructure more earthquake ...

This means that older buildings would have been particularly vulnerable. This is not unusual, as earthquake-resistant buildings can be more expensive to construct and Thailand, unlike Myanmar ...

“This earthquake occurred in an area with no earthquake-resistant buildings and inadequate building codes,” Carrera-Cevallos says. Although you cannot design a building to guarantee that it ...