Japan Earthquake: Amazing Video Of Tokyo High-Rise Buildings Swaying

by John G Johnston on 03/12/2011

in Earth, Living, Technology

There is so much incredibly bad earthquake related news coming out of Japan at the moment, which now includes the recent nuclear power plant explosion at Fukushima (video).

I thought I’d post this relatively good news story, amidst the still unfolding devastation. Embedded is a video from YouTube user escot2008 in Tokyo. The video shows a cluster of huge high-rise buildings in Tokyo swaying an incredible amount.

This seems like an amazing feat of engineering to have high-rise buildings sway from side–to–side so much, but not topple. It must be a terrifying sensation to be in one of these buildings as this is occurring, but much better than the alternative! It’s good to know tall buildings can stand up to a quake of this magnitude.

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Achmad_olly

is that true?
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Yes, absolutely. It’s hard to believe isn’t it? Tokyo has prepared well for big earthquakes. It has to, as there’s a fault about 100km to the east. You can see it on the map here: http://www.the9billion.com/2011/03/13/japan-earthquake-map-and-sendai-tsunami-flood-area-satellite-images/
dtn

if a similar earthquake happen in U.S, the building there will collapse immediately for sure
Jack

I don’t think that similar could happen anywhere. But what concerning buildings I saw on http://www.torrentoff.com that Japan’s buildings survived after such powerful earthquake. It’s really a miracle, they are so great architects!
http://www.the9billion.com jjprojects

Hasn’t California, where ‘the big one” would almost certainly be, got good building codes and earthquake resistant buildings too? I thought that was the case. Not sure about all those concrete freeways though.
Shidexhide

when is ? its reary hope so japanese earthquake:((
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