Skyscrapers in Tokyo swaying in Earthquake - Scary | Tokyo

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1. so scary
2. U r crazyyyy
3. you met me at a very strange time in my life
4. it happened to me yesterday in Romania bucharest, the building was hard and it was a 6.1 earthquake and i was on the 10th floor and the building was swinging like a swing (sorry for my english)
5. May I have this dance ?
6. I hope this didn't happen right after lunch.
7. You can thank base isolators which are installed in the basement to take the shaking and enable the buildings on top of them to move with the seismic waves.
8. It would scare the shit out of the person living at the top floor
9. How much more could they sway short of falling over ? What´s the math in it ?
10. I perfectly understand that this makes skyscrapers safer to live in, but it really does not change the fact that it's scary as hell.
    
    please understand that i am not trying to be a negative Nancy here, but I can't really imagine living in sky skyscrapers this big. I live in a 27 level building already, that's enough already.
11. Civil engineering at its best
12. but that scary ! did they at least evacuate?
13. OHH HELL NO!!
14. amazing engineering
15. Ohgod imagine being in the bathroom when that quake hits.
16. The buildings look like swings
17. this supost to be like this i am enginer od bridges and i know that brigde need to be elastic. if is not elastic it will break :)
18. engineering 1 - earthquake 0
19. Nothing wrong with the buildings 
20. i seriously cannot believe having to run down thw stairs in that building... few days ago i did about 25 steps and my heart stopped. Frm fear i couldnt breathe or cry. R.I.P to all the poor souls. I am frm Nepal by the way. tc everyone. #prayfornepal