FiChai

As far as I can remember, there was an airplane hit into a residential high rise building in Rmd (next to the Rmd public market) not too long ago, yet I never heard of any serious earthquake for the past 10 years, no matter Rmd or Van. If I really need to worry, i rather worry to live near any coastal area. Not to mention tsunami, just big waves could kill.

lo_pak

回復 10# kingkong123

You are only correct if you haven't included the effect of "resonance"... Don't mislead LYK here...
The water tank on top of the building acts as a very good damper to counteract high magnitude quakes...
Wood frame is a good shock absorber, this is correct, but the joints are weak...

In all, it all depends on the magnitude of quakes you are referring to...

Lik

回復  Lik

    many new buildings with similar building code in chile were badly damaged as well
ACC-HE 發表於 2011-3-17 20:59

That's true ar. Chile and Canada almost have identical building codes, and lots of apartment buildings crumbled in Chile.

We all know that the most earthquake-proof buildings are the wooden single houses ga la. But those are $1M+ a piece. Who can afford those nowadays (unless you have hot money from Grandfather)? Aside from wooden single houses, your remaining choices are town house, low rise, or high rise ga la.

Given the choice, of course the preference would be:

1) single house
2) town house
3) low rise
4) high rise

But you gotta factor affordability, locations, etc. into account, and buy what you can afford law.

-Lik

lo_pak

回復 9# Catpiano

It's not up or down, find the shear wall of the building...