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Monday, July 14, 2014

Earthquake Resistant Homes

These are not enforced, so almost no one knows such earthquake-resistant standards and guidelines for home-owners, exist. The Delhi Metro is one of the few Indian structures built to withstand a quake. Many of the houses built in Bhuj after the Gujarat Almost all the buildings in the area are in violation of simplistic rules of earthquake-resistant construction, according to which parts of a house to support each other and interlocked. A School child in the Region will come, according to a UN study While well-developed countries like Japan that have developed technology for earthquake-resistant homes, a large proportion of Nepalese homes are poorly-built and not designed to withstand earthquakes. Consisting mostly of brick and even stone and mud in Narayan had built the family a rammed-earth, earthquake-proof house, outside the city near the Botanic Gardens, using traditional local craftsmen. The house is undamaged. Now they sleep in their garden with neighbours, under tents and tarpaulins. Though a large earthquake can prove catastrophic to life and property, even relatively minor tremors may compromise the structural integrity of a home, resulting in large repair costs. A team of engineers based at California's Stanford University has Buildings are made quake-resilient with reinforced walls, and foundation slabs of a certain thickness are mandatory making them leaders in earthquake-proof structures. The ministry of home affairs, under which NDMA falls, is planning to launch a campaign .

Stanford engineers have built and tested an earthquake-resistant house that stayed staunchly upright even as it shook at three times the intensity of the destructive 1989 Loma Prieta temblor 25 years ago. The engineers outfitted their scaled-down, boxy two These houses are made with walls of bamboo or reed mesh (known locally as ikora) and plaster set in a wooden framework. They have a light tin roof and wooden floors that are “highly earthquake resistant”. The buildings are light, flexible and able to “As far as earthquake-resistant building designs are concerned experts feel that public living in such houses should be careful or take precautions while designing foundations. OKLAHOMA CITY – We’ve been hit by so many earthquakes recently a lot of Oklahomans are looking at ways to insure their home against damage or at least figure out a way to make their home earthquake resistant. It now appears one Oklahoma couple has .