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Geology
Study questions economic wisdom of building for earthquake-resistance
June 2nd, 2003
The U.S. federal government is urging Memphis, Tennessee, and other parts of the midwestern U.S. to adopt a new building code that would make buildings as earthquake resistant as those in southern California, where shaking is much more likely to seriously damage a building than in the New Madrid seismic zone. A new study by Northwestern University, Illinois, seismologist Seth Stein and colleagues, however, finds that the prescribed measures for the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) would cost far more than the damage prevented. The study, by Stein; Joseph Tomasello, structural engineer at the Reaves Firm in Memphis; and Andrew Newman, a seismologist at...
Source: Science Letter (2003-06-02)
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