Sentence examples for building destruction from inspiring English sources

One recent Entergy-sponsored terrorist study, conducted by a group of nuclear safety scientists, was built around the following extreme assumptions: a huge hole in the containment building, destruction of all emergency equipment, no action by the security guards or the operating crew, and a reactor meltdown.

Actually, in some rural communities north of Kathmandu, the building destruction rate was close to 100%% in 2015.

The good seismic performance of the reinforced buildings and structures significantly lowered the death toll and the building destruction (Maheri et al. 2005).

When comparing the fatality rate with the building destruction rate per inhabitant (Fig. 5), the fatalities of the Gorkha earthquake appear significantly smaller than for the 1934 earthquake, while the building destruction rate appears comparatively large for the 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

However, these fatality rates from these urban centers appear better correlated when plotted relatively to the building destruction rate (Fig. 5), suggesting a possible causal relationship between the fatality rate and the population density.

The dashed curve corresponds to Shiono (1995) standard unreinforced masonry fatality rate relationship as a function of the macroseismic intensity Fig. 5 Fatality rate from the 1934 Nepal Bihar earthquake as a function of the building destruction (Rana 1935).

The evocative graphic is now available on white T-shirts for women, men and children; the date of the buildings' destruction is lettered on the back of the shirt.

Engineers studying the collapse of the World Trade Center's twin towers attribute the buildings' destruction to heat generated by tons of burning jet fuel, not just the jetliners' impact.

Two superb New York Times investigative reporters, Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, combed through hundreds of interviews with survivors, building records, phone logs and never-before-heard transcripts of police and fire department tapes to produce a moment-by-moment reenactment of the buildings' destruction, from first impact to collapse.

Some, like Gary Vander Putten, president of the Fulton Ferry Landing Association, have lobbied hard for the building's destruction.

By then a coalition of local, state and national historic preservation groups, fearing the building's destruction was imminent, was already searching for another solution.