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Parthenon yields clues to quake-proof design
Cosmos Magazine ^
| Monday, August 25, 2008
| Agence France-Presse
Posted on 04/22/2010 8:11:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of quakes. "The Parthenon had great resilience to earthquakes, as did most classical Greek temples," said Maria Ioannidou, the archaeologist in charge of conservation of the ancient Acropolis citadel where the Parthenon stands. "The ancient Greeks apparently had very good knowledge of quake behaviour and excellent construction quality," she added. Toshikazu Hanazato, a professor of engineering and an expert in post-quake reconstruction, at Japan's Mie University, heads the research team which is visiting Greece next month to study the famed marble temple... The Parthenon has sustained significant damage in its long history but most of it was caused by man. The temple is partly built on solid rock but also has stone foundations going 12 metres deep, and its walls were held together by metal joints coated in lead to prevent rust, Ioannidou said. It withstood a 373 BC quake that destroyed the city of Elike in the Peloponnese and a subsequent 226 BC temblor that toppled the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic bronze statue numbered among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. More recently, a 5.9-Richter earthquake in 1999 that killed 143 people around Athens shifted some of the Parthenon's architectural elements, but caused no major damage. |
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
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photo credit: Wikimedia
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04/22/2010 8:11:51 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/22/2010 8:12:31 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: SunkenCiv
Eathquakes, no problem. Venetian cannon fire, problem.
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posted on
04/22/2010 8:16:29 PM PDT
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mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/22/2010 8:20:23 PM PDT
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GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: mlocher
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posted on
04/22/2010 8:21:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: mlocher
Eathquakes, no problem. Venetian cannon fire, problem. Eathquakes, no problem. Venetian cannon fire on an ammo depot, big problem.
To: mainsail that
Venetian cannon fire on an ammo depot, big problem. Not one of the Ottoman's better plans, was it?
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04/22/2010 8:30:54 PM PDT
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mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: SunkenCiv
White House yields clues to quack-proof design
To: SunkenCiv
Back in the day . . . .
To: colorado tanker
I think I dated her!
Nice simulation, btw.
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posted on
04/23/2010 6:50:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: SunkenCiv
You did? Are those brass balls in her right hand then?
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04/23/2010 7:16:34 PM PDT
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Sawdring
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