3 Replies to “Venezuela Earthquake: Engineering Perspectives”

  1. Some of the worst destruction was the collapse of building built on the coast on unconsolidated alluvial sediments, same as in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

    1. … and the Marina District Bay Mud during tbe1989 Loma Prieta earthquake whose epicenter was 35 miles south of S.F. … collapsed all the 3-story wood frame/stucco homes built over open bay garage stories.

    2. In 1981, I worked on an Italian Wedding Palace (AKA Banquet Hall). The owners were cheap and refused to pay for an engineering report on the soil conditions. The building and parking lot were on a discontinued garbage dump. So here we are 45 years later, building and parking lot still standing. I am a lowly interior designer who has renovated 7 houses, but I do wonder about the stability and soil compression of old garbage and wonder for how much longer will it last?

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