Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

[Starving Steve]

Re: Japan's hottest summer in 113 years

Wouldn't it be possible to build a container box like house anchored to nothing that is totally quake proof?

One of the biggest concerns in engineering my brother's McMansion was liquifaction. (I'm not an engineer, but I can relay to you what the concerns were.) The house was sited upon a flat sand leveled out of a hillside, and then pilings were sunk down into the flat sand-bed, hopefully into sandstone. The theory was that his house would survive a major earthquake if it was built tight ( like a box ) and would float on the sand as the sand quaked. The pilings would keep the house from sliding-away or turning-over, and the sand-bed would work as well as any other foundation, in-lieu of the circumstance of no obvious better place to site his house.

Needless to say, my brother keeps his earthquake insurance-policy up-to-date. The theory is that this location would actually be least likely to experience a magnitude 8 earthquake, because the San Andreas Fault moves freely in this part of the state--- with daily and weekly tremors releasing stress on the fault. ( That's the theory. )