Is your house earthquake proof as far as you're aware?

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D_Bone_Steak · Accepted Answer

I used to live in Japan...12'th floor on the top of this mountain, really close to the Yokosuka area... Saitama I think it was. Anyways we had decent earthquakes all the time and it was fine. It was a trip though because the whole condo would just start swaying... it would pop up on the news and that was that. The place though was made for it. Like the cabinets all locked and wouldn't let things shake out. Everything was basically secured for sea. Now that I'm back in the states, the structures of these buildings seem weak in comparison. You can tell just by looking at them. I'm no architect, but you can just sort of see the difference. I lived in Los Angeles during that 6 point something quake and a bunch of buildings just collapsed. Driving by you just know people that lived downstairs got crushed. Stuff rattled off the shelves in my place... it was nuts. Imagine if we got hit with a 9.0 like when I was in Japan... we'd be destroyed. Fortunately for me, I was in a Condo that was made for that type of quake. 12 stories up on the top of a mountain though, it was still a wild ride.

Guardian45 · Accepted Answer

We live at the highest point of our city on the water and are at almost the lowest relative seismic hazard risk.

But the strongest quake ever recorded in the region registered a magnitude of 5.5 in August 1929.

And a magnitude 5.4 quake centred just south of us, shook our area in September 1998.

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

No earthquakes here and steel-concrete frame of my 2 level house is made according to standards. Not because of earthquakes but the soil my house stands on is sedimentary rock mostly sand and clay. Foundation and frame of a building have to be stable and massive because building floats like a ship on such soils. If concrete used in a building here is too weak buildings and home builder was too skimpy with steel, buildings get cracks here after few years.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

We rarely get anything more than a tiny tremor in the uk so our houses aren't designed with them in mind. However during WW2 they found newer buildings quickly collapsed if a bomb landed nearby while older ones just wobbled and resettled. I assume the same would happen if we ever had a big one

NathanDavis · Answer

I know it isn't... because we just don't live in an area where the shaky shakes do happen

there are regions nearby that are also a lot less prone to earthquakes but they do fracking and they really like to bit at mountains for ore so the experience tremors from time to time and constructions do take a hit from just those "little" tremors

their construction code and regulations are not so different from hours so... I'm sure most buildings here if not all buildings would take damage from an actual earthquake

Red-Blaze · Answer

Yes plus exstra
The house I am in currently was degin on its base structure like a multi story building becouse the arcitcture that made it used to make huge buildings and taken above and beyond on that matter on this jouse as well, so likely be able to hold it just fine

Anonymous · Answer

I don't think so.. Building is from the end of the 19th century. There are already minor cracks in the wall :D. Maybe from when the 250 kg bomb from WWII that was detonated nearby xD. But anyway I don't live in an earthquake zone, so I guees it would also be a waste to proof it for that.

Lliam · Answer

I don't live in a seismic zone. Plus the geology underlying my house is rock, as opposed to sediment. Rock can be shaken, but it doesn't shiver during quakes. Sediment can shake like jelly and even suffer liquefaction.

So I don't expect any earthquakes to shake our house badly enough to cause destruction. Our house is one story and pretty sturdy. And nothing is going to fall on it. If anything, some stuff inside our house might get shaken around or fall off of shelves.

Bricealan · Answer

I don't think any home here in CA is earthquake proof. Some commercial building are built to "move' on the foundation or "sway' with the ground movement. My home is built on a concrete slab, like most 'Tract" homes here, and are wood frame and stucco, and it seems to have withstood many or most tremors here.

SnowedIn · Answer

Not very on the one hand but it wouldn't fall down on the other.

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

NOTHING is earthquake proof however new construction buildings have stricter building codes which could help during an earthquake however if the earth is going to shake things will break.

Fireguy17 · Answer

No clue since we do not have earthquakes here. They are built to be more tornado resistant now.

Happy_User · Answer

No because we don’t get earthquakes here so no one is ready if one hits

WeirdoFriendly · Answer

Had several earthquakes and it hasn't fallen or broken as of yet. I'd say so for the not so strong earthquakes.

musicbrain5 · Answer

Definitely not. My house was built around 1900 or so and we also don't live in an earthquake zone.

menina · Answer

No, I know it's not. Most buildings are not prepared for earthquakes or any other natural disasters in the country where I live.

Anonymous · Answer

nope. and we don't get extreme earthquakes here. but i guess i should take a look into it just in case. the world has been very weird lately after the pandemic.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I don't know, since we get very few earthquakes in Pennsylvania State in the U. S. A.

Soteris · Answer

Yes. Its built in a place where we dont have any significant earthquakes worth of note.

Agape93 · Answer

No idea. But it's sturdier than some houses across the globe.

Massageman · Answer

For our location, yes. Worst shake we ever had was a 3.2 when a local quarry blast aggravated a deep fault line.

driven159 · Answer

there is no such thing as earthquake proof everything has its limits if the ground splits wide open your house is done. You can only make sure that you don't get a Pancake collapse.

Anonymous · Answer

My apartment building is definitely not earthquake proof.

NostalgiaSenpi · Answer

Nope. But as far to my knowledge, the Clinton-Newberry faultline isn't that active and hasn't been a concern for quite some time.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I don't really know. My place was built in the 1970s. Fortunately I live in England so earthquakes are rare.

es20490446e · Answer

I have never experienced a seismic movement.

call_me_scar · Answer

Nope but I haven't had to deal with those in my 24 years here

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Probably not. Good thing is the last happened in 1989 and was just an aftershock of a huge one in San Fransisco.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Hardly. Seismic resistant construction is a very specific type of engineering and is not common.

Anonymous · Answer

My country has never had a tremor greater than 3, so we're fine.

boobliker · Answer

I don't really know as it was built in 1860 or thereabouts, it has stood here that long

Likes2drive · Answer

Not really but we don’t get them really here, the island sits on sand from a glacier deposit

Iron_Man · Answer

We don’t have earthquakes in Miami house is strong concrete

Wise4myage · Answer

Its not, but then again, we don't live in earthquake country.

shortster · Answer

Nope, I live in tornado alley so they weren't concerned about earthquakes when they built it.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

I don't think any house is earthquake proof but I live in New York so we've never had a big one

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

No idea, but probably not.

Dargil · Answer

It was built in 1887. Probably not.

Avicenna · Answer

Not "proof"

Mayo503 · Answer

I don’t think it is …?

inked2014 · Answer

Yes, my house is in SW Florida.

LemiaOfThunder · Answer

We rarely get earthquake so i dont know

Crankor · Answer

Houses are not earthquake proof

Alex8736 · Answer

luckily where I live we don't get earth quakes

peedy · Answer

We don't get earthquakes where I live

msc545 · Answer

I think so. I hope so!

Slay256 · Answer

Nope. My house is made of twigs.

Anonymous · Answer

No luckily earthquakes don't happen here

Guy13 · Answer

Think so.

Anonymous · Answer

Nope and it’s not affordable.

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

Don't think so!

Anonymous · Answer

I doubt it.

Luopio27 · Answer

I dont think it is.

pacman97 · Answer

Nope.

In_Trance · Answer

Nope

jimmy2 · Answer

No none here

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