but generally the building will survive, and that s the sort of baseline. how do you construct buildings in an earthquake zone? the vertical columns should be stronger than the horizontal beams. it means the upper storeys are supported, so you don t get what s called pancaking where one layer collapses on top of another. dampers can be added too. they act like shock absorbers as the building sways to and fro, and rubber bearings can be fitted underneath the building. they absorb the energy of the earthquake so it doesn t transfer to the structure above. but all of this costs money. and retrofitting an older building can be even more expensive. with so much destruction, there s a huge task ahead. it will take years of careful planning to rebuild. the hope is that the findings of this investigation will ensure this kind of devastation is not seen again. rebecca morelle, bbc news.
in an earthquake zone? the vertical columns should be stronger than the horizontal beams. it means the upper storeys are supported, so you don t get what s called pancaking where one layer collapses on top of another. dampers can be added too. they act like shock absorbers as the building sways to and fro, and rubber bearings can be fitted underneath the building. they absorb the energy of the earthquake so it doesn t transfer to the structure above. but all of this costs money, and retrofitting an older building can be even more expensive. with so much destruction, there s a huge task ahead. it will take years of careful planning to rebuild. the hope is that the findings of this investigation will ensure this kind of devastation is not seen again. rebecca morelle, bbc news. a public swimming pool in britain is being heated by a small data
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i can tell, when you talk about it, your whole face lights up, you clearly love doing this, what is it like being able to do it here in bradford and share it with other people? it is amazing because you share parts of your culture to other people and you tell them your storeys about kite flying. you share your feelings, how you feel when you fly kites, when you make kites, so that is really amazing. during the taliban s first period of control in afghanistan, kite flying was banned. the fly with me festival organisers hope the event will remind people of the freedoms lost in the last year and the help still needed. it has been a year since the taliban took over afghanistan and people were forced to flee, and there is a humanitarian crisis happening over there, the culture is under threat, music has already been banned, women are denied an education, people are dying from starvation. and nobody really talks about that any more, it was in the news in the beginning and then we kinda forgo