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It happened too early 8:03 AM. Probably no visitor or even staff in Taipei 101. Last time videos are all from visitor.
by thangngoc89 3y ago
It happened too early 8:03 AM. Probably no visitor or even staff in Taipei 101. Last time videos are all from visitor.
- voisin 3y agoThat’s too bad. They should live stream it so they can allow performance after earthquakes, a testament to successful engineering.
- hojinkoh 3y agoI can't imagine how terrifying it will be if I was on Taipei 101 during this quake...
- komali2 3y agoThere's no building I'd rather be in during an earthquake in all of Taiwan. Scratch that - a TSMC fabrication facility is probably safer.
- wiredfool 3y agoYou shouldn't be. Tall buildings (> 40 floors) are one of the safer places to be in an earthquake. 1) They're engineered. 2) They're already designed for side loads from wind. 3) Their fundamental frequency is well lower than the peak of the earthquake spectrum, so they don't amplify the motion. Good rule of thumb is that period = floors/10, so fo a 50 story building you're looking at a 5 second period. Earthquakes have most of their energy in ~1 second period waves. So effectively, the base wiggles and the top just floats along. The place to be terrified is in a 6-10 story unreinforced masonry apartment building.