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This is the humble Takagi Townhouse, in Nara prefecture, Japan. Built entirely out of wood, without a single nail, in the late 1840s. It does not look like much. But it is spectacularly well built. Here is a list of the major earthquakes to have hit it since it was built... —>
1854 Dec.9th Ｍ7.2
1854 Dec.23rd Ｍ8.4
1854 Dec.24th Ｍ8.4
1891 Dec. 28th Ｍ8.0
1899 Mar. 27th Ｍ7.0
1936 Feb. 21st Ｍ6.4
1944 Dec. 7th Ｍ7.9
1945 Jan. 13th Ｍ6.8
1946 Dec. 21st Ｍ8.0
1948 Jun. 15th Ｍ6.7
1952 Jul. 18th Ｍ6.7
1955 Jan. 17th М7.3
The Richter scale is logarithmic so the difference between a M8.0 and and M9.0 is far far larger than the difference between a M5.0 and and M6.0. For example.
Of course there was a typo in the list of quakes; the last one should be 1995 not 1955. Here is an older thread I did on this kind of foundation/seismic insulation.
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