Earthquake engineering

Elysium Questions 1. What do you think about the above establishing shots of Los Angeles and Elysium? Extreme long shot is used for emphasis the environment of two different place. The Los Angeles in Earth where ever be the civilized town was shown in the ruin town. The extreme long shot gives the picture of devastation; pollution, disease, and homeless. On the other hand, the Elysium was shown in productive place. Elysium is the place for wealth people, there are high-technology building…

Earthen materials show interesting environmental advantages when used to build [1]. These materials are becoming increasingly important in the context of the modern desire of construction materials which are less highly processed and have low toxicity [2][3][4]. Nowadays, there are several available techniques where these materials can be used with structural purposes, namely as earth blocks (adobe), compressed earth blocks (CEB), rammed earth and cob [5] but the lack of scientific data and lack…

Over the years, earthquakes have acted as one of the most lethal calamity in the world among other disasters. They have claimed millions of lives and numerous properties in the world since documentation of the earthquakes begun. Naturally, some areas have never experienced any earthquakes while other areas are said to be precisely in the hot zone where the probability of occurrence remains high. In the recent past, about 500,000 earthquakes are reported to happen every year. Of this, a human…

a huge earthquake that will have a massive destruction in the Pacific Northwest. Experts did not state when will it hit and how long it will last. However, according to Oregon State professor the magnitude will be between 8.0 and 9.2. Whether or not the earthquake is going to hit sooner or later and how powerful it is going to be. Being prepared could save a lot of lives and could avoid inevitable damages. But the big question is: are Northwesterners prepared when the disastrous earthquake hit…

triggered a nuclear accident was brought about by a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan, a region known as Tōhoku, that tookplace at 2:46 pm on March 11 2011, lasting nearly six minutes. It is the most powerful quake recorded in Japan and one of the four most powerful in the world since 1900 when record keeping began. It created forces five hundred times stronger than the 2010 magnitude 7 earthquake that devastated Haiti. The Tōhoku quake initiated a massive…

The bridges was build of different types like Beam Girder, Steel Arches, Cantilever-truss, Suspension. Then they have safety features to make the bridge more stable to withstand the earthquake which was Bearings, Ductile Materials, Shock Absorbers, shear links. Then we put an earthquake level from Hayward 5.0-8.0 and from San Andreas 5.0-9.0 then it shows the damage of the bridge that was build it will be destroyed at level 9.0 which is rare and is the most powerfulest quake. Vocab…

China Jan 23 1556 This earthquake occurred in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. This earthquake has took 830,000 lives and ground fissures landslides and city walls were destroyed. This quake also affected Liuyang 500 miles away from shensi. 2. 1964 Alaska Earthquake. A magnitude of 9.2 earthquake shook alaska and created many damage in communities. Anchorage has many damaged because of no earthquake proof…

The amount of monetary damage from an earthquake and the loss of life, depends on the type of soil, the retrofitting of the land, and how dense the population of that city is. In 1989, San Fransisco, California, was hit with a 15-second earthquake; the earthquake was 7.1 in magnitude. The fault of this earthquake was on the San Andres fault line. The damage from this earthquake was very severe, roadways were torn apart, and houses were destroyed. The area of the most damage was built on poor…

in the ocean. The way they form and their features are alike and different in many ways. Rogue waves and tsunamis both form in the ocean but form in different ways. Tsunamis can form in multiple ways. In source 2 it says, Tsunamis can form from earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides on the ocean floor. Large meteorites can cause tsunamis when they hit the water. When tsunamis hit shallow water its acts as a ramp pushing the water up higher. As it states in passage one paragraph 6 “A strong…

Sushil Bhandari (1997) defined vibration as a repeated movement in the normal rest position. The parameters involved with vibration are commonly amplitude or displacement and velocity or acceleration of the ground movement (Visvan, 2005). During demolition operation, vibration is normally caused by the impact of fallen structures or by the use of explosives (BS 6187:2000), which could pose detrimental effects of structural damage of adjacent premises, buried services like gas pipes, disturbance…