View Dr. Ross Stein’s TEDTalk Video (click the link below) and answer the following questions
- Describe two ways that most buildings are seismically weak (this does not include brick, stone or mortar buildings)
- Describe two simple ways that these weaknesses can be resolved.
- Why has there been a substantial increase in the number of global earthquake-related deaths in the past decade?
- What is a soft story? How is that bad for earthquake design?
- Along what kind of plate boundary are the largest earthquakes located? Subduction, Transform, Mid-Ocean ridge.
- What information does the seismic hazard model for Ecuador provide to prepare Quito for future earthquakes?
