Japan - before and after tsunami

[dugdiamond]

here

 

[ionicle]

bloody hell, thats some destructive water...

 

[SnW]

Terrible

 

[ionicle]

you'd have thought by now though...the japanese aint stupid

that they'd build their houses with 10+ meter foundations, have 4 thick steel girders at each corner of the structure, then use tripple layered bricks for their walls, and double layers of roof tiles on the roof...

so that if this happens it would just...be easy to fix...

not building houses out of poxy paper...

 

[alicarve]

you'd have thought by now though...the japanese aint stupid

that they'd build their houses with 10+ meter foundations, have 4 thick steel girders at each corner of the structure, then use tripple layered bricks for their walls, and double layers of roof tiles on the roof...

so that if this happens it would just...be easy to fix...

not building houses out of poxy paper...

that is bad... they probably do have major buildings that can withstand earthquakes, but not an earthquake then a tsunami.

 

[Hay11Mac]

Thats just scary

 

[Ghosthud1]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJzdtzl6KY[/media]

Watch that and say there build quality is low.

The houses in the images are cloose to the water...knowing that, i guess there fisherman houses etc so they wont be of high build quality.

 

[dugdiamond]

okay ppl. remember that most of those skyscrapers are very old in construction tech standards.

it is only in the last 20years that they have found new ways of building tall buildings, which cope with quakes much better.

those buildings in the clip are from the 80s. (before the new tech) and, they were taken on purpose! i have not seen any of the new (10yrs old) scrapers which 'flow' with the quakes