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Earthquake-resistant or aseismic structures are designed to protect buildings to some or greater extent from earthquakes. While no structure can be entirely impervious to earthquake damage, the goal of earthquake engineering is to erect structures that fare better during seismic activity than their conventional counterparts.
There is a plaque commemorating two famous dogs, Bummer and Lazarus, at the base of the building. [25] The hull of the whaling vessel Niantic, an artifact of the 1849 California Gold Rush, lay almost beneath the Transamerica Pyramid, and the location is marked by a historical plaque outside the building (California Historical Landmark #88).
The building was built from the top down. The thirteen-story [2] core was built first then steel was hung from cables at the top and the 9 occupied floors were successively built downwards. [1] It is considered to be one of Vancouver's most earthquake-resistant structures. [citation needed] The building's address is 1333 W. Georgia Street.
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 building, designed by Fr. Roque Ruaño, O.P., is the first earthquake-resistant building in the Philippines. [2] Ruaño was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright 's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo . [ 3 ]
In the wake of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, prospective home buyers may be asking themselves what about a house makes it more able to weather a natural disaster. There ...
The Montgomery Block, also known as Monkey Block and Halleck's Folly, was a historic building active from 1853 to 1959, and was located in San Francisco, California. It was San Francisco's first fireproof and earthquake resistant building. [2] It came to be known as a Bohemian center, from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th-century. [2]
The building's vertical columns were able to resist the nearly vertical downward force of the blast, and parts of the concrete and brick outer walls remained intact. The building's durability can also be attributed to its earthquake-resistant design; it has held up to earthquakes before and since the bombing.