Help with Quake Project?
22-Sep-94 06:10:25
Sb: #146575-Help with Quake Project?
Fm: Don Kenney 72630,3560
To: Dan Levy 72066,361
If you don't get other answers to your question about details on any earthquake
in asia, you might try looking up the 1932(?) Tokyo earthquake. Since it was a
large quake in a major city, you might be able to dredge some data out of
encyclopedias and good history books. I believe the epicenter was somewhere
near downtown Tokyo. I do know that one of the results is that the really tall
buildings in Tokyo are built in the outlying Shinjuku district — 15km from
downtown. For whatever reason, it was relatively undamaged in that quake, and
when the Japanese started building large buildings in the 1960s, they hoped
that the geology there is such that earthquake forces are moderated.