This Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 hit the southeast of Taiwan. The event, regardless of paralyzing the island due to the risk of a tragedy, left us with a great lesson from one of the skyscraper highest in the country: how a building behaves in these situations.
people inside the Taipei 101, and skyscraper of 106 floors, they recorded how the building’s stabilization system works in the event of an emergency, as an example of engineering milestones to date.
How is a skyscraper stabilized in an earthquake?
The Taipei 101 It has a 660-ton mass damper with steel plates.
The device is installed between floors 87 and 92 and has a simple but difficult objective: to stabilize the building in the event of an earthquake.
In the already viral images on Twitter, the huge ball suspended with tensioners and hydraulic pumps moves in opposition to the orientation that the skyscraper in the earthquake
The people who record do not move or are unfazed by the event.
Engineering made to give security
The engineers of Taipei 101 they designed the building to withstand 150-kilometer winds and magnitude 7 earthquakes.
The Taipei 101 it began to take shape in 1999 and was completed in 2004. Its total cost has been estimated at approximately 1.76 billion dollars. It was the tallest building in the world between 2003 and 2009.
Sunday’s earthquake claimed at least one life, toppled three buildings and ripped through roads, but specialists say the threat of a tsunami region has passed.