From JET Chris Ott

April 17, 2016 at 02:55 JST 2016

From JET Chris Ott

I was wondering starting from what year building codes required buildings to be built to be earthquake resistant, and it looks like if your place was built after 1981 there shouldn’t be any worries of it collapsing. Cracks and visual damage yes, but it shouldn’t collapse.

Earthquake building codes in Japan

Japan is a seismically active country and has some of the most rigorous earthquake building standards in the World. Although building codes are updated regularly, a major change to the building sta…

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