This walk-up from the carport to the entrance also lends earthquake protection.
A. They were there for earthquake protection.
The company insures 316,000 houses in the Bay Area, 83,000 of which have earthquake protection.
The building of Steel Dragon 2000 required far more steel than other coasters for earthquake protection.
Neither city has earthquake protection in its building code, and yet the most destructive earthquakes on historic record have occurred not far from them.
The earthquake showed the overriding importance of architecture with built-in earthquake protection.
One tool of earthquake engineering is base isolation which is increasingly used for earthquake protection.
The European Union and the capitalist development method are not able to satisfy urgent needs, such as earthquake protection, education, health and welfare.
And there's the added benefit of increased earthquake protection.
All together, these implement the system of earthquake protection called base isolation.