'The eastern districts of the capital are built on unstable and flood-prone soils, and there are still concentrations of old
“The eastern districts of the capital are built on unstable and flood-prone soils, and there are still concentrations of old wooden dwellings attached to each other”
The low-rise, largely wooden city that was destroyed a second time by US firebombing during World War II has been replaced by a soaring megalopolis where reinforced concrete is king. The 2011 earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami along the northeast coast but in Tokyo the damage was limited: high-rise towers oscillated alarmingly for several minutes but did not topple.Early basic reinforced structures have been adapted with more sophisticated seismic safety measures found in modern towers.
“It stretches and shrinks repeatedly in case of an earthquake. It then starts getting warm, which means the energy of the quake transforms into heat and gets released,” Kai Toyama, a structural engineering official at real estate giant Mori Building, told AFP.
Despite all these efforts, some experts say Tokyo remains vulnerable to earthquakes, and even more to other natural disasters such as floods.
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