How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

I had to Google Erdogan to find out who he is.

finally, you made a video about bricks.... 75,000 structures of bricks falling.... it appears that you making a brick video is inevitable.

jokes aside, i feel really bad for the people who lost their houses to this calamity...

Funny story: Almost a decade ago, I had the opportunity to work and live in Tokyo. I told my employer that I was thinking about it, just to be safe, but inside me I was excited AF and very willing to take that opportunity. That is, until I spoke to my best friend who told me that Tokyo was prone to earthquakes. Which is a fact that I intellectually knew, as their major earthquakes had always been in the news cycles, but it was a fact that I hadn't internalized—I didn't know that fact on an emotional level, simply because my day to day life didn't have to deal with that particular danger. In the end, I told my employer to fuck that opportunity, and I had been sad since, missing out on some hentai and otaku action, and possibly becoming hikikomori.

Free palestine.

We need a full Wendover video on this

This is what happens when governments actually do their jobs instead of using their position to force their religious morality onto others and cut public services to give taxpayer money away to private corporations.

My earthquake engineering professor told us that we design earthquake-proof buildings not to make them not destroyed if earthquake happens, but to make sure it won't harm anyone if the earthquake is powerful enough to destroy it aka it would give its occupants some allowance in time to escape or to be damaged but not totally destroyed.

Oof. 'I' in Japanese is pronounced 'ee'. You did it correctly on the first syllable of taishin, and then said "shin" on the second syllable😞

I wonder how many earthquakes they felt when they were doing capture the flag over there 🤔

I was today years old when i found out alstrila🇦🇺 has Earthquakes....and its all red....

I'm sure another small error for the year end video but Japanese society was founded 1,400 not 14,000 years ago. That would place it far ahead many ancient socities.

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Impressive. Shabbat Shalom!

This is why Japan needs to lead the rebuilding of Haiti. They can't keep building buildings with concrete blocks.

>Doesn't even mention the creepy damper mascots

Talking about Japanese building construction and show a picture of the counterweight in Taipei 101...

Hint: Taipei is NOT in Japan. It's not in China either.

Dear Sam: Erdogan is pronounced Erdovan. I have no idea why. Sorry.🙃

The technology that goes into ensuring Tokyo's resilience is indeed fascinating. The tiered approach to building safety and the national seismic detection network certainly seem vital in disaster mitigation. Thanks for simplifying and presenting this complex topic so effectively.

I lost all respect for this channel when you said 'fortunately the only people who are going to die are poor people'

wow

Incans confused by the implication that stone frames aren't wobble bobble no trouble.

Indian viewers give attendance ...

The way things are built will make the most significant difference in a time of disaster

Is anyone informed about the metro/trains in Tokyo ? Does the same concept apply to the railing ?

Earlier this year?

Earlier this year???

Whats sad and terrifying is that the Second largest metropolitan, Jakarta, also sits on the ring of fire, yet the buildings are probably as shoddy, if not more so, than those in Turkey

Should have mentioned to 1921 Earthquake. Then Tokyo was 100% flattened. The failure also caused one of the largest regressions in Japanese society so embarrassing that the Japanese government tries to ignore or even refuses to admit happened today. Even today, so anime like to romanticise the event, but it was more Mad Max than so massive coming together of the people. But the real lessons was the absence of an emergency response, and how quickly many in Tokyo simply hand waved the distruction as someone elses problem. As a result, Tokyo initiated an emergency response system and effectively had to reboot its culture to include efforts to encourage people to rescue others in an emergency. It's also part of the reason why the city was rebuilt so fast after WWII.

So that's why Sprout Tower in GSC/HGSS has the pillar in the middle

Why are words and names always mispronounced on Wendover and HAI videos? The g is silent in Erdogan. It’s not that hard to research the real pronunciation. I don’t mean to be rude but it’s really frustrating because this has happened for years and it is starting to seem like ignorance of non-American cultures.

Non Civil Engineers may be surprised to know that every structure built anywhere on earth after design, non including small, illegal ones without any formal design and approving authority, are designed to resist earthquakes up to a certain magnitude.
The building design codes have parameters to decide the intensity of the earthquake, usually exceedance rate 1 in 2500 years. (0.02 probability to exceed in fifty years). I can attest Turkish codes around 25 years back had very high seismic parameters and expect them to continue.
But smaller residential units may or may not be built to those specifications or have bypassed requirements by bribery etc.

"Fortunately enough,the only people who are gonna die are the poor ones "😮

HAI videos are Wendover videos that are too short or when Sam doesn’t want to spend too long explaining stuff.

The last earthquake of 7+ magnitude in Tokyo was some hundred years ago. I'd say the jury is still out. 😞

“Earlier this year” you might want to run that script by a proof reader again.

“Earlier this year”

Thanks to Half as Interesting, my building is now half as likely to fall over. Thanks, HAI!

Can confirm those phone alarms are really fucking loud. Usually don't bother getting out of bed for one though...

This video is half explaing how Japan is making their buildings earthquake proof and half blaming Erdogan for casulties in a Turkey earthquake xD

Hi Sam!

Huh, the Shinbashira explains the Sprout Tower in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. It has a central beam that rocks back and forth to keep the tower from collapsing.

The P wave gives a great indication of how bad the S wave earthquake is going to be.
I was in a restaurant when P wave hit then the S wave. I yelled out It’s a 5 at 25 miles. I was pretty close. The other scared patrons stared at me a bit then realized the quake was over and they lived. Then they laughed at me. It helps to remain clam.

The savagery 😅

Japan isn't the only country to not get the memo, tons of cities including some of the largest metropolises are on the ring of fire. Mexico City, LA, Vancouver, Taipei, Manila, etc. Etc.