How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes

Re:How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes by mc32 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:46PM (#34918517)

Following strong building code certainly helps.

However, I feel we'd be remiss to not investigate the geology of the different places. Are they similar, different, one alluvial one on bedrock? Seeing the iconic olive grove have a 30 meter collapse, I'm not sure what kind of building would survive that upheaval, unless the pilons went deeper than that into bedrock.

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Re:How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes by mlinksva on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:12AM (#34921445)

I feel we'd be remiss not to read to the end of a paragraph:

However, engineers and scientists (such as Omer Emre) attributed the town escaping unscathed to geological factors, such as Erzin's relatively higher sea level compared to surrounding towns, and it being built upon harder ground, consisting of bedrock and coarser grains than sand, compared to softer, water-laden sediments like that of cities to the south.

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