This is a difficult area (specialist architecture and engineering) in which to find web-based information in any language, and most of the published tomes will be ridiculously technical and full of equations.
If you download the first pdf in the list in the right hand column on the following page you will find a well written treatise on what happens to low rise buildings in earthquakes, and it goes some way to showing why some of the building codes are written as they are. (Cordolos, which form a band around levels of the building, and why you shouldn't put windows too close to corners). It is talking about India, but it is perfectly relevant to any earthquake zone. Skip through it and find the bits which interest you.
[url=http://www.arup.com/geotechnics/project.cfm?pageid=701]Design Guide for the Repair of Earthquake Damaged Buildings | Geotechnics | Arup[/url]
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This is a difficult area (specialist architecture and engineering) in which to find web-based information in any language, and most of the published tomes will be ridiculously technical and full of equations.
If you download the first pdf in the list in the right hand column on the following page you will find a well written treatise on what happens to low rise buildings in earthquakes, and it goes some way to showing why some of the building codes are written as they are. (Cordolos, which form a band around levels of the building, and why you shouldn't put windows too close to corners). It is talking about India, but it is perfectly relevant to any earthquake zone. Skip through it and find the bits which interest you.
[url=http://www.arup.com/geotechnics/project.cfm?pageid=701]Design Guide for the Repair of Earthquake Damaged Buildings | Geotechnics | Arup[/url]