*vanity* How do log homes fare with earthquakes? *vanity, chat*

vanity | 8/24/55 | Mamzelle

[Mamzelle]

In the rural mountainous south, there are a number of log home buildings and builders. After the recent quake, I'm wondering if log structures might have an advantage when the ground shakes?

[momtothree]

I don’t know the answer but I think it is a fascinating question. I had actually wondered if one story homes (like Ranch styles) don’t do better than two story homes (like Colonials)?

[WestwardHo]

Best structure is wood frame...swings and sways but stay up.
Worst is stone or brick.
Too many variables with logs. Two story, falling beams, and the way logs are joined. Something small would probably be OK.
I grew up in California. Log house sounds kind of scary to me.

[Polybius]

VIDEO: Blockhaus Erdbeben log home earthquake test

The house will do fine. The limiting factors will be the stability of the foundation.

[madison10]

Sounds like Lincoln Log structures. They don’t hold up to much, except weather.

[TSgt]

A brief video about one family’s experience with a Heritage Log Home during Hurricane Rita.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBC0f9QuJc

My wife and I plan on building a log home in the near future.

[cpdiii]

Log homes will do very well in an earthquake provided the logs are securely fastened to each other.
Masonry (Brick and Stone) do not fare well unless there is a superstructure of properly designed steel beams.
A wood structure with a brick veneer will do well but expect to have cracks in the brick veneer.

If it is brittle it breaks. If it bends it remains intact.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

So let me see if I got this right:

American dollars were spent on a marxist style statue, built in a communist country, with zero racial diversity where citizenship for immigrants is quite literally based on race.

And it’s going to be publicly displayed in our capital?

This is a good idea how?

[Tijeras_Slim]

"We had no supply chain disruptions following the earthquake." a company spokesman said.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

(oops sorry)

That was supposed to be on the MLK statue thread. Sorry :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, there’s your answer right there!

[Salamander]

I live in a two story, 300 year old log house that’s literally stacked on a “foundation” of flat rocks laid in/on the ground.

It wiggled some yesterday but not a single thing fell down, over or off.

So far, so good.

The added-on downstairs bedroom/bathroom must’ve shaken harder.
It woke hubby up from a sound sleep.

It’s built on a concrete slab.

Seems like he felt it more than I did.

[the invisib1e hand]

better than with forest fires, I’d imagine.

[mountainlion]

The construction method would dictate the resistance to earthquake. There are hundreds of old log cabins still standing. I suspect some have fallen before they were finished. I would try the search function to find official comparisons.

[Salamander]

Thank God.

I thought I’d lost my mind.

:)

[Mamzelle]

Ummmm...

[passionfruit]

Modern log homes would do very well. The logs are spiked together, as shown here: http://www.compressionpak.com/spike1.html

[momtothree]

Good to know! Thanks!!

[Lazamataz]

I have no idea what you are talking about....

So here's a picture of Saddamn Hussein with a pancake on his head.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I’d hit that pancake for breakfast.