September 24, 2020

Himika Paul

Strip The City

Transamerica Pyramid
- Accelerometer measures movement

- pyramid shape - low centre of gravity

- Massive Steele skeleton

- Steele around base- 30,000 tons

- Anchored to the ground with a trust

- Can stand through a magnitude 7.1 earthquake

- Seismic switch

- Elevators stop when earthquake detected.

Golden Gate Bridge

- stretches 1km

- Foundation deep into the sea bed

- 105k Concrete blocks anchor the bridge

- 130km of steel wire

- Creep meter says how much tension is building up.

Oakland bay bridge

- Busiest bridge in America

- Bolts came loose

- Was not flexible

- Part of the bridge collapsed

- Roadway split into 28 sections

- Hollow steel beams allow the bridge to absorb the waves.

- Cables that make the bridge stable- made up of many cables.

- Can move safely with the earthquake

- Towers are made of 4 separate pilots with segmentation

- Crumble zones

Residences - Homes (Mission Bay)

- soil is tested before houses go up

- Bay mud is very soft and is bad for earthquakes

- Liquefaction- ground tuns into liquid (quick sand)

- Houses on that land can sink into the ground

- Clusters of deep piles

- Piles need to be pounded into the bedrock

- Concrete caps and contrite paths connected to piles

- Concrete mat places on top of concrete caps

Subways and Tunnels

- steel lines underground guides the cable cars

- Caldecott Tunnel

- Tunnels used to overcome hills

- Tunnels must be able to cope with earthquakes

- Build In segments to allow for flexibility

- Steele mesh and rubber with overlay of concrete

- 16 trains an hour shuttle people in and out of downtown everyday

- Fire from broken gas lines are a huge hazard

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Christal Springs Dam

- Dam was built right into the fault

- Largest dam in the world in 1988

- Mosaic of giant interlocking concrete blocks

- These blocks can move and flex during earthquakes

- Survived the great earthquake of 1906 (biggest earthquake in west coast)

- The water pipes were ripped apart during earthquake - no water at fire hydrants to put out
fires and resulted in destruction of the city

Twin Peaks Reservoir

- water strictly for firefighting

- Lined with reinforced concrete slabs nearly 20 cm thick

- Joints between the slabs allow the pool to warp without cracking

- Reservoir can store more than 4o million litres of water

- Gravity pulls this water into a network of pipes under the city

- Hook up to 1500 hydrants

Parkfield
- Earthquake capital of the world

- Instruments placed into hyperactive rupture zone

- Scientists can detect earthquakes but not predict them