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2025-11-09 22:29 UTC

How earthquake safe are Vancouver condos? https://www.patreon.com/posts/143211904

Replies (4)

  • @hyperpape@hachyderm.io 2025-11-09 23:26

    @danluu “Should we expect building safety any different?” Assume this needs a “to be”.

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  • @AT1ST@mstdn.ca 2025-11-10 00:04

    @danluu This does remind me of a couple tangential things: 1.) The state of our apartment elevators; 2.) This person I know who found out that, despite yearly smoke detector inspections, apparently they didn't even have a smoke detector in their specific apartment for 2.5-3.5 years (Found out after a particularly burnt breakfast and they were wondering why the smoke detector didn't go off. Since been fixed.) 3.) The fact that an outlet in my apartment has a "DO NOT USE - Use = Death and possibly a fire" sign taped up above an outlet (I *think* that outlet's been fixed with the most recent electrical work in the building? Haven't checked.).

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  • @dplattsf@sfba.social 2025-11-10 00:54

    @danluu there are some great studies on building demolition where they put dummies in different places and then assess how well they did post demolition. IIRC being next to things >> under things (between beds, not under tables). The #sfba has earthquakes just enough that we do something about it. I worry about the other parts of the whole west coast, b/c the risk seems to be similar but kind of understandably it's harder to motivate people to deal with hypothetical risks. #earthquake

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  • @n0mads@mastodon.social 2025-11-10 07:59

    @danluu welcome back man, it's been almost half a year since your last post up here

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