why are doorways the safest place to stand in an earthquake?
In: Engineering
This is a recommendation for buildings with concrete carcass with masonry of any kind, not so applicable for light wooden frame buildings. In concrete carcass buildings with masonry, the walls might crack and collaps during an earthquake, but doors and windows have concrete headers, which are an additional piece of reinforcement we can count on during an earthquake, though a better solution is to stand under a beam, if one you can easily identify it.
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