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Why are buildings more vulnerable to horizontal shaking then to vertical shaking?
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What kind of shaking can a building withstand the best in an earthquake?
Most buildings can withstand vertical shaking
Landslides are caused by the force of what?
Landslides are caused by liquefaction, which is the result of water being mixed with soft soil by the shaking of the earth during an earthquake. It can also cause instability in buildings and cause them to be more vulnerable to collapse during aftershocks or further quakes.
What were the primary effects of the christchurch earthquake?
building collapsed ,200 injuries,181 people were killed, ground shaking, building are weaken, water and sewage pipe were damaged ,city's buildings were damaged etc.
When an earthquake occurs is shaking greater?
Yes, shaking is a primary characteristic of earthquakes
What is the process in which shaking causes soil to act like a liquid?
Violent shaking can cause certain soils to flow. The shaking results from a nearby earthquake.
What kind of shaking can a building withstand the best in an earthquake?
Most buildings can withstand vertical shaking
What is it about the earthquake that damages the buildings?
Tectonic plates move below the ground, shaking and damaging buildings foundations.
Why is there noise with an earthquake?
The movment does cause the rattle of buildings shaking as well.
Landslides are caused by the force of what?
Landslides are caused by liquefaction, which is the result of water being mixed with soft soil by the shaking of the earth during an earthquake. It can also cause instability in buildings and cause them to be more vulnerable to collapse during aftershocks or further quakes.
Why are skyscrapers shorter in California citites than other cities in the US?
California experiences earthquakes frequently as compared to other States. Skyscrapers are more vulnerable to the shaking during an earthquake than shorter buildings. So they don't build as high in California.
What kind of damage after caused by the servere shaking of an earthquake?
The violent shaking causes buildings to fall. It also causes causality loss of the people inside it.
What waves affect tall buildings more?
The seismic waves affect tall buildings more. It is because shaking may cause them to collide.
What is earthquake hazard?
it is the effect of ground shaking buildings can be damaged by the shading it self or by the ground beneath them
Why the stronger the earthquake the greater the loss of life?
cause earthquakes happen a few seconds up to minutes and the aftermath or aftershocks could collapsed buildings destroy homes create tsunamis or volcanoes cause of the impact of earthquakes
What are earthquake hazards?
An example of an earthquake hazard is the violent shaking and buildings falling on people and the fumes from liquefaction being harmful to humans animals.
Statement about the cause of building collapse during an earthquake is FALSE?
Some soils under buildings become liquefied due to severe shaking. thats false
Effects of earthquake on building frame?
Buildings are designed to resist loads in specific orientations. The largest load a building will normally experience and be designed to resist is it's own self weight. This will normally act vertically downwards through the building. Seismic waves introduce a significant non vertical component to this loading (whether that be shaking side to side as a result of Love Waves or the rolling motion caused by Rayligh waves) which creates torsional (twisting), shearing and bending stresses that the building would never normally experience. This can exceed the strength of the structure and cause portions of it to fail or even collapse.
