Sentences with phrase «in earthquake zones»

His goal is to help develop design standards for engineers building in earthquake zones.

You will never want to be in another high rise hotel again in a earthquake zone.

It's also significantly harder for countries in earthquake zones with corruption problems to enforce their building codes.

If you are residing in earthquake zone areas and looking for that peace of mind to be protected financially in the event of any damage then insurance is definitely a good purchase.

Should buildings in earthquake zones be designed to float?

«Although it's obviously absolutely right to say we don't live in an earthquake zone, there may, for example, be lessons to be learned over the back - up facilities for cooling,» he said.

The Asian firm is considering lending U.S. homebuilder Lennar $ 1.7 billion to construct two housing projects, according to the Wall Street Journal — one of them on a polluted man - made island in an earthquake zone.

In a sense, these results are more like the tremors felt in an earthquake zone: A sign that something larger is on its way, and that the tectonic plates beneath the industry are shifting.

If you were to build a house in an earthquake zone you certainly would invest in someone who could build you a solid home, not someone who claims to predict when the earthquake is going to hit.

There we ate our picnic lunch and fell into a rambling conversation about politics, real estate values in an earthquake zone, and the virtues of sauvignon blanc over Chardonnay.

Their patented device is to connect neutron sensors in earthquake zones to a digital counter which monitors its readings and triggers an alarm if the level soars.

Peng and Xiaofeng Meng, a graduate student at Georgia Tech, then compared the aftershocks» timing to atmospheric - pressure readings in the earthquake zone, testing their hypothesis that a decrease in pressure caused by the storm's travel up the East Coast might have reduced forces on the fault enough to allow it to slip.

Indian geophysicists have drilled a seven - km deep borehole in this earthquake zone and have established an on - the - spot observatory to study earthquakes.

Oh, there are a couple lines here and there about how they shouldn't build skyscrapers in earthquake zones, but it doesn't amount to anything.

Some examples may include storm shutters, stronger roofing, sprinkler systems indoors and outdoors, structural enhancements in earthquake zones and more.

You can be sure China is not likely to allow a vulnerable school to exist in an earthquake zone again.

# 496 - Steve reynolds - building dams is expensive, and not always a good idea in an earthquake zone.

See the map below, from an earlier print story of mine, to note the number of kids in earthquake zones:

I asked the report's authors about another problem I've been tracking at the World Bank — what some officials there say is a persistent lack of focus on investments that can limit losses in inevitable natural disasters (like reinforcing schools in earthquake zones).

In the wake of my coverage of the hundreds of building collapses triggered by the powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey last weekend, Barry Welliver, a structural engineer based in Utah, sent a cogent amplification on ways to limit structure collapses in earthquake zones.

Indonesia's considering building nuclear power plants in an earthquake zone (Bangka Island) near Singapore.

Unlike living in an earthquake zone, wherein «quakes occur sporadically, in a non-cyclical fashion, flood plain inhabitants experience spring runoffs every single year... same time, same place, same station.

China Development Bank may lend Lennar $ 1.7 bln to build two housing projects - one on a polluted man - made island in an earthquake zone.

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a...

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a medical team and others to assist in the recovery effort.

I live in an earthquake zone.

There, and in earthquake zones in industrial powers (California and the Pacific Northwest, for instance), could it be that the lack of adequate consideration of what's possible may simply be because the brunt of humanity's growth spurt has happened between eras when these zones have had enormous jolts?

I always tell my clients that the floor isn't going anywhere (unless maybe you live in an earthquake zone... in which case there might be other more helpful types of imagery!)

I was thinking of making a small first aid box up there as well since we are in earthquake zone..