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  2. Earthquake engineering - Wikipedia

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    Effects of pounding against adjacent building, Loma Prieta. Pounding against adjacent building. This is a photograph of the collapsed five-story tower, St. Joseph's Seminary, Los Altos, California which resulted in one fatality.

  3. Crash box (stagecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Crash boxes are used to recreate the sounds of a crash, collision or glass breakage in theatre. To recreate the sound effects, crash boxes are dropped from a height backstage. They can also be shaken to create a gentler sound effect. A crash box is generally preferred to a recorded sound effect because it is perceived as more realistic.

  4. Citicorp Center engineering crisis - Wikipedia

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    The tuned mass damper has a major effect on the stability of the structure, so an emergency backup generator was installed and extra staff was assigned to ensure that it would keep working reliably during the structural reinforcement. The city had plans to evacuate the Citicorp Center and other surrounding buildings if high winds did occur. [2]

  5. Watch Louisiana tower turn into dust as city demolishes ...

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    A building with its windows blown out is seen in the downtown area after Hurricane Laura passed through on August 27, 2020 in Lake Charles, Louisiana . The hurricane hit with powerful winds ...

  6. List of building and structure collapses - Wikipedia

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    Kep building collapse Kep, Cambodia: Tourist guesthouse under construction 36 dead, 26 injured [50] 2020 Palmerah West Jakarta four-story building collapse Jakarta, Indonesia: Building 11 injured [51] 2020 Collapse of Xinjia Express Hotel: Quanzhou, Fujian, China Hotel 29 dead, 42 injured 2020 Caprigliola bridge collapse: Caprigliola, Tuscany ...

  7. The deadliest building collapses in U.S. history

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    The deadly collapse of an oceanfront apartment building in Surfside, Fla., just outside Miami on June 24 could end up being one of the worst such disasters in U.S. history. Here are other fatal ...

  8. Infrasound - Wikipedia

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    Nobody had conceived that sound might exist at such low frequencies, and so no equipment had been developed to detect it. Eventually, it was determined that the sound inducing the nausea was a 7 cycle per second infrasound wave that was inducing a resonant mode in the ductwork and architecture of the building, significantly amplifying the sound ...

  9. Collapse of the World Trade Center - Wikipedia

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    It was the deadliest and costliest building collapse in history. The North Tower (WTC 1) was the first building to be hit when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into it at 8:46 a.m., [a] causing it to collapse at 10:28 [e] after burning for one hour and 42 minutes.