EARTHQUAKES RESISTANT STRUCTURES & MORE !

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TECTONICS  &  MONITORING

Latest techniques in Geo-positioning and technologies used in navigation of spacecrafts, bombs, missiles are being used to get very accurate readings of the relative movements of the earths surface.

This with data collected over time should be able to give us fairly strong and accurate warning about impending disasters, especially when this is combined with live monitoring of seismic activity in a particular area.

Un-stressed earth medium behaves differently from the stressed medium under the regular movements/ displacements and normal gravitational loading and unloading.

Pin pointing the exact location and timing of an impending earthquake may finally be linked to holistic models developed with all the data and experience.

One of the most interesting aspects of monitoring the earth is the introduction of probes placed deep into the earth's crust itself.

The next stage is the controlled release of the stresses in the earth crust due to tectonic plate movements at fault locations. This can surely be done after the understanding of the earthquake mechanisms and after prediction models get developed. This ultimately is likely to be the most effective means of preventing disastrous effects of earthquakes. Rather futuristic and imaginative though!