WRONG BUILDING DESIGN
Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. There were three main causes of damage to buildings in the earthquake area, according to Br. C. E. Adams, Government seismologist, who has returned from a tour of investigation. They were bad foundations, the use of designs not intended to resist horizontal stresses, and, in less frequent cases, the use of inferior materials. Dr. Adams said he considered that some building regulations similar to those adopted in San Francisco after the earthquake there may be enacted here to provide that buildings must be braced to make them capable of resisting a lateral pressure of 301 b to the square foot. The fact that miners 1,200 ft. underground at Reefton are stated to have felt the earthquake disproved a popular impression that earthquakes were not noticed far under the surface.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 712, 11 July 1929, Page 11
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