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The property firm behind Japan’s new tallest building, which opened at the Azabudai Hills development in Tokyo last July, claims its quake-resistant design features — including large-scale ...
According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2008, around 7.56 million houses were empty. It was later estimated in 2019 that approximately 13.6% of buildings in Japan were vacant, [17] referred to in Japanese as Akiya (Japanese: 空き家, lit. 'empty house').
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.
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 ...
Japan earthquake: Passengers run for cover as train station shakes and water pours through ceiling 09:15 , Maroosha Muzaffar Seismology experts caught off guard over intensity of 1 January earthquake
Earthquake loss estimation is usually defined as a Damage Ratio (DR) which is a ratio of the earthquake damage repair cost to the total value of a building. [62] Probable Maximum Loss ( PML ) is a common term used for earthquake loss estimation, but it lacks a precise definition.
Three months after the building's completion in 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake happened. This structure withstood the damage and Naitō included this fact in his lectures as the effectiveness of his earthquake-proof design theory had been proven. Other than the Industrial Bank of Japan, he worked on the Kabuki-za and the
Looking out toward the sea offered signs of how Japan’s landscape had been altered there, too. Experts say the tectonic shifts from the quake pushed the ground up 13 feet in some areas and moved ...