The 972-foot tall building features a combination of anti-earthquake measures. The entire building sits on rollers, which allow the earth to undulate beneath the structure without shaking it. Additionally, the building has an active mass damper system that prevents the building from swinging by weighing it down. And if that doesn't work, the building is made from flexible materials that bend with the earthquake instead of breaking.
There's really no answer for that question. It's said to be 'earthquake resistant' by the people who built it, but it's never really been specified to what scale.
Considering it was finished in 1993 though, its guaranteed to have been through many earthquakes already.
I saw a special on it when I was living there, and there are a lot of anti-earthquake measures under the hood. The entire building sits on rollers,so the ground can shake and whatnot without affecting the building (if it's a smaller quake). The building's also made of flexible stuff so it can flex, and it has a mass damper pendulum type system that you should Google. Interesting stuff.
2 systems:
1) center column vibration control, with the core column and surrounding steel frame connected by a flexible oil damper
2) added mass control mechanism aka mass damper, for this tower it's his core column
the Richter scale is used to measure the power, strength of an earthquake
The Richter and Moment Magnitude scale are both logarithmic scales so that a scale 1 earthquake would be 10 times weaker than a scale 2 earthquake and 100 times weaker than a scale 3 earthquake, so mathmatically I would say that it increases by a tenth of a scale 7 earthquake.
the Richter scale
Richter scale measures magnitude of an earthquake, while Marcalli scale measures the strength of an earthquake.
The Haiti earthquake was measued at a magnitude of seven on the ricter scale.
The Richter Scale
the Richter scale is used to measure the power, strength of an earthquake
The Richter scale pf the Kobe earthquake is 7.2, and it corresponds to 11 on the Mercalli scale, as it measures the destruction of the earthquake.
The seismic scale that measures the intensity of earthquake damage is called the Mercalli intensity scale. This scale measures the effect an earthquake has on people and surroundings.
The Richter and Moment Magnitude scale are both logarithmic scales so that a scale 1 earthquake would be 10 times weaker than a scale 2 earthquake and 100 times weaker than a scale 3 earthquake, so mathmatically I would say that it increases by a tenth of a scale 7 earthquake.
No. The Richter's scale measures the magnitude or intensity of an earthquake on a scale up to ten.
the Richter scale
Richter scale measures magnitude of an earthquake, while Marcalli scale measures the strength of an earthquake.
The 2011 earthquake was a 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale.
The Haiti earthquake was measued at a magnitude of seven on the ricter scale.
An earthquake that was rated 3 on the Richter scale would beignored
Earthquake scales that take into consideration the damage caused by an earthquake are known as intensity scales. Examples include the The Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale and the Macroseismic Scale.