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    The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

    This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet

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    Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/21/09

    In reply to The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
    I'd be impressed. But the Mayans managed to build this stuff quite a while ago...
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: The Mayans had airports?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/21/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: No one claimed that this airport was supposed to be a noticeable milestone in engineering.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/21/09

    @Gann: Dude. The mayans had airports for aliens.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Also, there's evidence that a large earthquake may have accelerated the Mayan collapse:

    [adsabs.harvard.edu]
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/21/09

    @Gann: Right, but figure the mayan culture spanned several hundred years. They had their peak, and then a steady decline. You can look at the architecture and determine the time period in which a structure was built.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: The article talks about earthquake damage to the ruins of the buildings being excavated. These are their temples, their pinnacle of architectural achievement. This 2 million square foot airport terminal is unfathomably more complex than their stone complexes, and can withstand a M=8.0 quake. To denigrate this because "the Mayans managed to build this stuff quite a while ago" is just flat out wrong.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/21/09

    @Gann: OK, how about this. They managed to do it a long time ago without cranes, electricity, welding, advance metalurgy, and autocad.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/21/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: They did do something amazing with what they had, but that something amazing was apparently not earthquake proof.

    As a side note, this terminal was built with "cranes, electricity, welding, advance metalurgy, and autocad", but without slavery.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/21/09

    @Gann: How do you know that the builders were not economic slaves?
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    11/21/09

    In reply to The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building
    Maybe France should take a cue from this while they're rebuilding CDG.
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    Image of Michai Michai
    11/14/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    Great graphics on this article, very cool. #earthquake
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/14/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    And here I thought the first picture was a diagram of nerve impulses from a tweaked nipple... #earthquake
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    Image of jeffk jeffk
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    I puzzled over the 3-D atmosphere illustration for a while.

    The F-15 (12.3 miles high) looks higher than the balloon (20.8 miles). And they both look higher than the 32.9 mile-high balloon. #earthquake
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    Usually graphic designers are the ones that make you say "Wow!" Sometimes, though, they are definitely the ones that make you say "What the hell? Why?" #earthquake
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    11/13/09

    In reply to This Is How an Earthquake Propagates Through the Entire Planet
    This model isnt entirely accurate.

    When the S waves hit the outer-core, they should refract and create P waves at the boundary. when those hit the opposite boundary of the core, they will refract again and create a S wave making a final SKS wave. #earthquake
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    Any idea why I seem to have problems getting these videos to play in Safari 4 OSX? Every time I hit the play button it flashes to an image in the video and then back to the play button.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/14/09

    @Homerjay here for OxyClean!: Same with Chrome. Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't
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    Image of jerNELS jerNELS
    07/14/09

    @deanbmmv: wait for the little grey bar to load... patience:) i know, it's weird they take so long though.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/14/09

    @jerNELS: The grey bar goes backwards though. Like you hit play and it goes over the pause button. Kotaku use a better (ie working) player, Giz should hit em up and ask what they use.
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    It's not the fact that it can't withstand the earthquake, but moreso the fires associated with them. See 1906 San Fran Earthquake.
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    Image of daftrok daftrok
    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    That exterior test was really undramatic. That's what a 7.5 magnitude earthquake looks like? I guess you have to see it for real to get the actual effect.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @daftrok: Shoot! We accidentally set it on 0.75!
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    Image of ooqooÊžÉɾ_Is upside down! ooqooÊžÉɾ_Is upside down!
    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    Wow! I never thought wood would work for this purpose. It's kind of funny that decades and millions of dollars in research have been poured into "earthquake proof" materials, while wood does the job perfectly!
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/14/09

    @Jakooboo, Starfleet Captain: It's definitely more flexible than steel or brick, but when you want to make a skyscraper wood just doesn't cut it as a a building material for structures several hundred feet tall. And It's more Earthquake proof designs than materials, such as oscillating tanks of water at the top of a building, double layered exterior walls, and even parts of a building on rails to let it move on it's own.
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    Image of redangel7 redangel7
    07/14/09

    In reply to Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?
    Did they put something to represent human and human-related things inside the condo? I'm not a civil engineer but I'm sure that the weight factor of these things are also important to determine the structural integrity of the building.
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    Image of Barion Barion
    07/14/09

    In reply to Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?
    The Northridge quake was a magnitude 6.7. A 7.5 magnitude temblor would be almost 30 times as powerful, not 1.5. Magnitude is measured on a logarithmic scale.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    07/14/09

    In reply to Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?
    Great, so I'm going to lose my stomach at 8am (PST) when I arrive at the 7th floor southern California office tomorrow morning. I'll still watch it, knowing that a recent 5.4 was a pretty good shake, and this will be over 100 times greater in strength. :(

    Edit: 9:15pm, an earthquake just shook my apartment. Naturally, I ran to hold the plasma.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/13/09

    In reply to Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?
    See, THAT'S what you do to prove a point. I just wish these 9/11 Truthers could do something similar, and run into a burning building and rig it to implode on video. Then I might buy their theory.

    Do they re-build/repair the building after each shake?
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    07/13/09

    @2DaysTillTheState_GitEmSteveDa...: I just wish 9-11 Truthers would run into a burning building and stay there.
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