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reddit_clone on April 5, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthq...

>earthquake I felt in NYC

I am getting anxious just thinking about this. With all those sky scrappers..

zaptrem on April 5, 2024 | [–]

They thought of this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper

q1w2 on April 5, 2024 | [–]

Sky scrappers are the safest buildings to be in during an Earthquake. The most dangerous are the oldest much smaller masonry multilevel buildings.

reddit_clone on April 15, 2024 | [–]

This is like flying commercial. Your brain knows it is statistically safest. But your palms sweat during takeoff and landing no matter.

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