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0 pointsrjzzleep2y ago0 comments

Table or bed? What they teach here locally is to get under a door frame or a pillar. I guess that recommendation has something to do with construction codes. When your walls are made out of light wood a sturdy table might protect you from fractured pieces I guess.

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scoofy2y ago· 2 in thread

If I remember from Introduction to Natural Disasters in college, the door frame example is mainly for masonry buildings, and is a bit of a historical artifact.

My understanding is that advice today strongly suggests getting under something sturdy in the attempt to end up in a void during a collapse event.

rjzzleepOP2y ago

> My understanding is that advice today strongly suggests getting under something sturdy in the attempt to end up in a void during a collapse event.

A table is sturdy?

The doorframes here are made out of solid steel. It's literally the most sturdy place to be next to pillar. On top of that if the solid steel door gets stuck you will not leave the apartment until emergency services with steel drills or someone with welding equipment frees you from there. I'm a bit puzzled at what you were taught there.

Contrary to the US, Taiwan has had proper earthquake compliant building codes that for the most part have been enforced(and reinforced) since the last disaster stuck the island over 20 years ago. For most places in the world outside of Japan, Taiwan, and a few other places an earthquake of this magnitude would be a mass casualty event.

bobthepanda2y ago

One is that in an open floor plan, you may not have time to find the nearest actual doorway.

I would also imagine that the strength of any given doorway would depend on if the wall it was in is load bearing. A non load bearing wall is going to get crushed to bits once an actual load falls on it.

I do think the advice is geared towards traditional furniture and not today’s IKEA particleboard crap.

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