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Ah yes, Boston. No need to worry about what would happen to those 2, 3, and 4 story wood houses if they got a good shakeup at 5+ on the Richter scale.
by foobarian 5y ago
Ah yes, Boston. No need to worry about what would happen to those 2, 3, and 4 story wood houses if they got a good shakeup at 5+ on the Richter scale.
- RandallBrown 5y agoExplain the thousands and thousands of new 2, 3, and 4 story wood houses in Seattle. From my understanding wood is actually pretty good for earthquakes.
- nluken 5y agoRight, that's why San Fransisco consists entirely of single story buildings.
- ethanbond 5y agoThat’s why they build so small and spread out in Tokyo, and never with wood!
- foobarian 5y agoNever say never, recently there has been a spate of news about engineered wood beams looking like pretty capable replacements for steel. Example: [1] [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/is-mass-timber-the-building-material-of-the-future https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/is-mass-timber-the-buildin...
- ehutch79 5y agoIt's not like developers in LA don't know how to build things resistant to seismic events.
- TYPE_FASTER 5y agohttps://earthquaketrack.com/us-ma-boston/biggest https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ma-boston/biggest I remember that Sanbornton quake. We lived in rural NH. At first I thought it was the clothes washer...then the house really started shaking.