We had a medium earthquake a few weeks
Ago but it felt pretty strong. I was at work and someone sent out an email that said “the earthquake felt stronger here because the building is on rollers” but everywhere I look the building is connected to the ground and there is a center courtyard inside our triangle shaped building that looks like a mound of earth. How can my building be on rollers?
In: Engineering
Just because the ground is touching the building, that doesn’t mean that the frame of the building is supported by that ground.
You’d have to look at the foundation and how it connects the frame to the ground below to see how the building is supported.
If I build a Lego tower on a table and then cover the table with an inch of sand, the table is still what the tower is on, not sand.
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