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Why Buildings Fall Down Kevin Woest, Mario Salvadori, Matthys Levy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

A lot of buildings didn't fall down. Authorities say up to 11 people are considered to be inside the buildings and five people have been saved. The basic idea of explosive demolition is quite simple: If you remove the support structure of a building at a certain point, the section of the building above that point will fall down on the part of the building below that point. If I built it, she knocked it down. Its hardly going to be an accident when another big quake hits and all the old, un-strengthened buildings fall down. The authorities closed off both Reade Street and Chambers Street, between Broadway and Church Street. Posted 20 November 2006 at 07:55 am • reply. Police closed off part off Route 11 to traffic and to people, out of concern the rest of the building could fall down. BONUS Video Blog: Why Buildings Fall Down w/ Rick. But the death tolls were nothing like Indonesia in 2004. We've covered before on this very website the fact that I am irrationally paranoid about earthquakes, so any headline with the word in the title is going to set. Why not put some pressure on landlords to fix the problem. She could have authored Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail had Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori had not beaten her to it first. Buildings at 65, 67 and 77 Reade Street were evacuated as a precaution. Http://www2.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/031152.htm. A wonderful book on the subject of engineering failures: "Why Buildings Fall Down" by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori. Of course people died, buildings fell down in the earthquake, and things were flooded by the subsequent tsunami. The collapse occurred just after 6:15 a.m.