It is very hard to make a condominium fully earthquake proof. In the very strongest earthquake, even the best engineered condominium will suffer severe damage. However, engineers do their best to make sure the condominiums will stand up long enough for the occupants to get out to safety.
The worst buildings that perform poorly during an earthquake are made of poor quality masonry such as brick or concrete block. The walls are generally made out of bricks stacked on one another other and are held with a mortar. The roof is made out of beams of wood laid across the top of the wall. The weight of the roof is carried straight down through the wall of the foundations. When an earthquake occurs, this type of building gets a sideways jolt, the walls tip over and crumble and the roof falls in on the occupants like a house of cards. Fortunately, the government in the Philippines takes the necessary steps to make sure that the condominiums in the Philippines comply with the proper building codes to ensure the safety of the public.
As these structures get more complex, the task of making it more earthquake proof becomes harder. The harmonic characteristics of the building and ground have to be considered. Even if the materials for the building is of high quality, the structure of the building may be weak.
Some countries take the building code for granted. Countries like these usually have a high death rate when tragedies such as an earthquake occur. Philippines has a law in which all buildings should follow specific guide lines that will ensure the safety of its occupants during earthquakes. Architects should ensure that their design is earthquake proof before they are approved. There are various organizations in the Philippines that ensures the safety of the upcoming buildings.
Philippines being in the "Pacific Ring of Fire" experienced a lot of tectonic activity. Considering this, there has been no major fatalities because of earthquakes.Right now, there are a lot of infrastructures in the Philippines that can reach as high as thirty floors. Some even reach up to fifty. Being in an earthquake prone zone, these structures are built in such a way that they will withstand at least a magnitude 6 earthquake. The Philippines has not yet experience a magnitude 8 earthquake.
The Philippines has a lot of volcanoes. A volcanologist institute called Phivocs, studies the area around these volcanoes and offers recommendations for the safety of the structures around these areas. There are cases however, in which Phivocs revokes a permit of those infrastructures near volcanoes, as to because these places are more earthquake prone.
Engineers are discouraged to build their ฝากขายทาวน์เฮ้าส์ projects near mining areas. These places, even if most of them are not in fault lines, are still earthquake prone.Earthquakes from these areas are unnatural, they are man made.They are caused by large blast, heavy machinery and soil displacement.
The Philippine government takes all of this into consideration when building a condominium in the Philippines.
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