Picture of the collapsed school
why is it that schools seem to collapse more notably and terribly than other public buildings- not just in China but elsewhere in the 3rd world
Corrupt contractors cutting corners during construction, using inferior materials? My guess. I hope it never happens here.
Many schools collapsed badly in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake (70 destroyed) Fortunately, it was at 6PM and only a few students were killed. It led to the Field Act which mandated strict school construction standards in California.
, silverleaf wrote:
why is it that schools seem to collapse more notably and terribly than other public buildings- not just in China but elsewhere in the 3rd world
Corrupt contractors cutting corners during construction, using inferior materials? My guess. I hope it never happens here.”
Ha, we just had a recent article about Chinese contractors building dorms in SC schools. The Manchu marches on.
This is terrible, but an even worse catastrophe is expected if the Three Rivers dam in China ever gives way (and it might).
Prayers for the afflicted in Myanmar and China, and a pox on the corrupt and nasty governments of both.
Because they don't have trailer homes?
Using inferior materials and inferior methods. The corruption is extra. When I was a lad in Istanbul (long ago in another century) every time the ground shook a little a couple of apartment buildings would come down.The shaking wasn’t anything that would concern someone in California at all, just a little bit and buildings would fall. The problem was the concrete had no steel in it; a nine story building with no steel. A 5 earthquake in southern Viet Nam would probably level almost all of the masonry houses and some of the older buildings. Construction of even some largish edifices is actual brick, not just facing like we do here, but one row brick faced with cement stucco so that it looks like poured concrete. Often the bricks are staggered with spaces between them, sometimes filled with banana leaves and such under the stucco. A typhoon a couple of years ago blew down hundreds of those solid looking masonry houses around Da Nang.