Earthquake Safety: Our Own Monumnet

Contents

• Earthquakes
• What We Are Doing Today
• Our Own Monument
•         Interior and Exterior
• The End

Earthquakes

• Defintion
•            -a sudden and violent shaking of the ground
•            -sometimes causing great destruction
• Ring of Fire
•             Near the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes often occur

Interior

• Use metal conductors 
• Bolt the monument to the conctrete
• Interior braces
• Flexible pipes
• Earthquake monitoring systems

Exterior

• Dampers
• Tension ties
• Base isolaters
• Cross braces
• Shear walls

The End