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Engineers develop unbelievable new method for making skyscrapers earthquake-proof: 'The technology works'

A high-rise building design coming out of the University of British Columbia won't produce pushovers, but the structures will have some much-needed sway. It's part of a construction strategy described ...
CNN

How Japan spent more than a century earthquake-proofing its architecture

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full extent of ...
The New York Times

Earthquake-Proof, Not Corruption-Proof: Turkey’s Needless Deaths

Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was. The collapsed Guclu Bahce complex in Antakya, Turkey, ...