You also need hundreds of motors to shunt the blocks from their penthouse apartments to the elevators and back. Hydro power dams and generating stations have b

You also need hundreds of motors to shunt the blocks from their penthouse apartments to the elevators and back. Hydro power dams and generating stations have been through thousands of serious earthquakes, worldwide, over more than a century. A condo penthouse packed with concrete blocks? Not so much. We have a lot of experience with earthquakes and stone blocks stacked high without mortar. The name for those is "ruins".