What are some buildings that survived earthquakes?
In the Niigata earthquake in Japan, there was a wide range of styles of structure collapse and survival. On Google there are assembled a good set of photos from various sources. Note particularly the group of medium rise housing.
Some blocks are intact, some are structurally sound - apart from lying on their back that is! And some in between. The bridge photos show 'progressive collapse' quite well.
Some buildings are depicted in different positions than their actual location, but truthfully depicts on the side the Castle of San Servando). It is signed on the lower right corner by El Greco. Some buildings that are making people sick are getting clean bills of health.
Or it may be that where standards do exist, OSHA's permissible exposure levels, which are often influenced heavily by politics and industry, are just too high.''These exposure limits don't have any real bearing on what's happening in white-collar office buildings,'' says Alan Hedge, professor of human ecology at Cornell University.
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