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> I’d like to see a European brick and mortar house survive a Magnitude 8 earthquake, which is a requirement in San Francisco. Sorry to put it this way, but is
by paganel 3y ago
> I’d like to see a European brick and mortar house survive a Magnitude 8 earthquake, which is a requirement in San Francisco.
Sorry to put it this way, but is this a joke? I do live in Bucharest, in Eastern Europe, on the 8th floor of an apartments building built in the early 1980s, and I sure do hope that this building can withstand a Magnitude 8 earthquake seeing that we've had a 7.5 earthquake back in 1977 and a 7.7 one back in 1940 (and a 7.1 earthquake back in 1986, which I do remember).
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThe Richter scale is logarithmic, so I wonder how well a structure built to withstand an earthquake the magnitude of Romania’s previous earthquakes could withstand a Magnitude 8 earthquake. When the huge construction boom began in Cluj in the first decade of the new millennium, the common opinion seemed to be that the old, ugly socialist-era blocks would survive an earthquake just fine, but people were less confident about the new buildings that private developers were constructing.