Earthquake engineering structures are designed and constructed to withstand various types of hazardous earthquake exposures at the sites of their particular location. Earthquake engineering is treating its subject structures like defensive fortifications in military engineering but for the warfare on earthquakes. Both earthquake and military general design principles are similar: be ready to slow down or mitigate the advance of a possible attacker.

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  • Earthquake engineering structures are designed and constructed to withstand various types of hazardous earthquake exposures at the sites of their particular location. Earthquake engineering is treating its subject structures like defensive fortifications in military engineering but for the warfare on earthquakes. Both earthquake and military general design principles are similar: be ready to slow down or mitigate the advance of a possible attacker. According to building codes, earthquake engineering structures are meant to "withstand" the largest earthquake of a certain probability that is likely to occur at their location. This means the loss of life should be minimized by preventing collapse of the buildings . Ancient architects believed that devastating earthquakes were a result of wrath of Gods and, therefore, could not be resisted by humans. Nowadays, the people's attitude has changed dramatically though the term earthquake engineering structure does not necessarily mean it is extremely strong and/or expensive one like the El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza shown above. File:Snapshot of base isolation effect. jpg Snapshot from shake-table video of testing base-isolated (right) and regular (left) building modelCurrently, the most powerful and cost-effective tool of the earthquake engineering structures is base isolation which makes use of passive structural vibration control technologies; see, e.g. , the Cathedral structure to the left.
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  • Earthquake engineering structures are designed and constructed to withstand various types of hazardous earthquake exposures at the sites of their particular location. Earthquake engineering is treating its subject structures like defensive fortifications in military engineering but for the warfare on earthquakes. Both earthquake and military general design principles are similar: be ready to slow down or mitigate the advance of a possible attacker.
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