TLC :: Earthquakes: Tremor Tech

November 04, 2009

Tremor Tech

	EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND Tremor Tech: Holding It Together Tremor Tech Protection From the Bottom Up Holding It Together Keeping the Pieces in Place When Working Together Is Bad Fire Protection Earthquake Prediction Measuring Quakes Again, there's more than one way to do it. One approach is to make a building as big and stiff as possible, with no weak spots, so that it'll withstand a quake and stay in one piece. The converse is to deliberately design parts of the frame to move, so that in the event of a quake, the frame will deform slightly and absorb the shaking without losing its integrity.

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Pictures: Courtesy of Steinbrugge Collection, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley | Courtesy of Godden Collection National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering/University of California, Berkeley (2) |

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