Some buildings constructed of reinforced concrete that were at the epicenter of the April 6 earthquake in Italy's Abruzzo region survived gravitation forces that were off the chart, a survey has found.
That discovery was made by a damage reconnaissance team assembled by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center led by Paolo Bazzurro, AIR Worldwide director of engineering analysis, Boston-based AIR said.
"Several identical six-story reinforced concrete structures built in the late 1980s to early 1990s, which were located at the site where the recording station went off scale at 1g, showed no apparent structural damage, only moderate cracking to the infill walls," said Mr. Bazzurro.
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