SciShow | The Future of Earthquake-Proof Buildings

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Episode Title: The Future of Earthquake-Proof Buildings
Produced by: SciShow
Description: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Earthquakes are almost impossible to predict, luckily engineers have come up with some amazing ways to protect people the next time one might strike. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/earthquake-resistant-buildings/#/1/2 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/dec/11/earthquake-proof-city-christchurch-japan-colombia-ecuador https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/science/halting-jolts-how-te-papa-resists-earthquakes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817334999 (you can access the paper here...it’s a super long URL) https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2015/07/11/in-the-future-a-vibrating-barrier-could-protect-cities-against-earthquakes https://www.crisis-response.com/comment/blogpost.php?post=128 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17378-invisibility-cloak-could-hide-buildings-from-quakes/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-do-you-make-a-building-invisible-to-an-earthquake-17536143/ https://physicsworld.com/a/seismic-cloak-could-minimize-earthquake-damage/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/510716/first-test-of-seismic-invisibility-cloak/ https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q4/new-3d-printed-cement-paste-gets-stronger-when-it-cracks--just-like-structures-in-nature-.html https://www.engineering.com/BIM/ArticleID/17805/3D-Printed-Cement-Paste-Uses-Biomimicry-to-Strengthen-After-Cracking.aspx https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802123 Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taipei_101_Tuned_Mass_Damper_2010.jpg https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F1%2F15%2FTaipei_101_Tuned_Mass_Damper.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3ATaipei_101_Tuned_Mass_Damper.png&docid=pUX78ibDtj_PSM&tbnid=R-6ytqYCDEdeHM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjHideVr5niAhVRtZ4KHQmUD1cQMwhDKAgwCA..i&w=922&h=769&bih=821&biw=1658&q=wikimedia%20commons%20tuned%20mass%20dampers&ved=0ahUKEwjHideVr5niAhVRtZ4KHQmUD1cQMwhDKAgwCA&iact=mrc&uact=8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spring%E2%80%93mass%E2%80%93damper_system.svghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Millennium_Bridge_-_Damper_beneath_deck,_north_side_-_240404.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taipei_101_view.jpg#/media/File:Taipei_101_view.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Airport_Sahiba_G%C3%B6kcen_from_Air.jpg#/media/File:Airport_Sahiba_G%C3%B6kcen_from_Air.jpg


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