Sentence examples for earthquake building from inspiring English sources

Under the state's strict earthquake building regulations, developers seeking to build in a fault zone are required to do intensive seismic studies and prove they're not building on a fault.

Mr. Gao referred to an earthquake building code standard used in China.

The earthquake building code in the United States incorporates state-of-the-art scientific research and engineering design practice.

Many times people think that this is unnecessary, they are not convinced there is a benefit, and they feel that all the people who are saying this should be done come from the earthquake building industry.

In 1995, for example, he designed houses for refugees struggling after the Kobe earthquake, building them with cardboard tubes erected on a foundation of beer crates filled with sand bags.

No stranger to natural disasters, China has had an earthquake building code since the 1960s.

Due to earthquake, buildings are damaged partially or completely.

As most standards ignore the possibility of fire after earthquake, buildings are not adequately designed for that possibility and thus PEF is a high-risk load needed to be scrutinized further, codified and become part of a routine design.

Comparisons of predicted and observed building damage highlight the limitations of using current deterministic approaches for post-earthquake building condition assessment.

"It makes more sense to say from now on we only build anti-earthquake buildings -- it only costs 15percentt more and it's worth it," Mr. Iorio said.

In these cases it is simpler to build earthquake safe buildings that comply with current standards of comfort and quality.