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The piecemeal evolution of building regulations continued through the 20th century. But a code introduced in 1981 known as “shin-taishin,” or the New Earthquake Resistant Building Standard ...
The house is encased in concrete and deep in the ground to resist to lateral forces. The bedrooms are on the intermediary floors, and the kitchen and living room are on the top floor. The organization of the house follows the principles of the Ken organisational framework, [2] and is often mentioned as an example of Jutaku houses. [5]
Tsunami-proof design of Ocosta Elementary School, Washington. In the United States, there is a recognized lack of tsunami-proof design, especially in vital installations such as aging nuclear reactors in vulnerable regions. [3] For instance, the Unified Building Code of California does not have any provision about designing for tsunamis. [4]
Thus, two wooden houses built before adoption of the 1981 Japanese Building Code were moved to E-Defense [5] for testing. One house was reinforced to enhance its seismic resistance, while the other one was not. These two models were set on E-Defense platform and tested simultaneously. [6]
The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record ... after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula in the central prefecture of Ishikawa in January. ... and the real ...
TOKYO – A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook parts of southern Japan on Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was reported about 7 miles to the east ...
Wooden houses are considered to have a lifespan of twenty years, and concrete ones to have a lifespan of thirty years, and the assessed price depreciates each year contrary to housing markets in other nations. Most real estate agents also use this pricing policy as a rough guide [citation needed]. Although there are still some wooden homes ...
List of earthquakes in Japan; Tō-ji; The Japanese page on the architecture of the 5-tier pagoda of Japan contains sections about the debated reason behind pagodas' quake-resistance – one of the two theories is the Shinbashira, and also lists the types of styles in which the Shinbashira is employed in the building of the structure.