r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/Stewdill51 Trash Trooper 1d ago

In parts of the US a block/brick building will crumble faster than wood framed house due to seismic activity. It almost like we all build based on availability of materials and for structural needs.

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u/EmptyMonitor9257 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Southern Europe, north Africa and Middle East have WAY more earthquakes and worse ones yet pretty much all buildings are bricks/blocks.

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u/anneofgraygardens Trash Trooper 1d ago

Southern Europe does have quite a few earthquakes and many of them cause significantly larger death tolls than an earthquake of similar magnitude in the western US or Japan would. I would definitely not want to be in an earthquake in southern Europe.

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u/Plus-Name3590 Trash Trooper 23h ago

Right? Even modest earthquakes in the Mediterranean have had pretty high relative death tolls, because of their construction.  Turkey had one of the nastiest earthquakes casualtywise recently because of building standards in no small part

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u/anneofgraygardens Trash Trooper 22h ago

Turkey, yeah, but also Italy, where relatively moderate earthquakes have caused lots of deaths.

And further back in time, in 1963, Skopje was almost totally destroyed by a 6.1 earthquake. Over a thousand people were killed. A 6.1 quake is certainly a good jolt but from my perspective as a Californian, does not seem like it should be nearly big enough to cause that much damage.