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    Earthquake-resistant or aseismic structures are designed to protect buildings to some or greater extent from earthquakes. While no structure can be entirely...
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  • buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind. Its overall goal is to make such structures more resistant to earthquakes. An earthquake (or seismic) engineer...
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    modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to earthquakes. With better understanding...
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    (2016). Seismic Architecture - The architecture of earthquake resistant structures, Llunji Mentor, Earthquake Spectra. Msproject. ISBN 9789940979409. Finch...
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    Transamerica Pyramid (category Earthquake-resistant structures)
    reported by the U.S. Geological Survey as potentially vulnerable to a large earthquake, due to a flawed welding technique. The land use and zoning restrictions...
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    Japan to categorize the intensity of local ground shaking caused by earthquakes. The JMA intensity scale should not be confused or conflated with magnitude...
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    been shut down since May 2011 to avoid a similar disaster. Earthquake-resistant structures Escape pod "TSUNAMI WARNING AND EVACUATION SYSTEM IN NISHIKI...
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    modern earthquake-resistant structures sustained serious damage. Several key attributes of the event were shared with the 1994 Northridge earthquake, considering...
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    range that can cause moderate to very heavy damage even to earthquake-resistant structures. Shaking damage was more severe than for other quakes of similar...
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    defining reliable and accurate loading patterns for design of earthquake-resistant structures based on all components of seismic motions, i.e., three translational...
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