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Where I'm from we have earthquakes.
by ohazi 14y ago
Where I'm from we have earthquakes.
- coldtea 14y agoWhich is orthogonal.
- SupremumLimit 14y agoNo it's not. For example, the vast majority of 1-2 storey buildings in New Zealand have wooden framing, because it allows seismic resistance at a relatively low cost. Most people that died in the Christchurch earthquake a couple of years ago were killed by falling bricks and stone, and a couple of collapsed concrete block buildings.