Why don they build cities in earthquake regions on big metal plates with giant dampers underneath?
Nobody yet has mentioned your dream building…Taipei 101…which is built on a big platform with lots of dampers and is in an earthquake zone, actually 660 feet from a major fault line. It is in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. For a while it was the world’s tallest building. It has a huge metal damper to absorb energy…more than 600 tons…. as well as outrigger damper panels built into it’s pagoda-like shape., which is also based on bamboo and the number eight…a very lucky number for the Chinese. It is a technical marvel. Here is the damper absorbing energy from the Sichuan earthquake many miles away in China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSgd1XSZ… . . . . http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ariel-sc… . . . . . While it was being built a 6.8 magnitude quake struck Taiwa
