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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Georgesoros on February 07, 2023, 04:41:38 PM
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Yet the former strict building code has been ignored.
Most of the Rift is a disaster zone waiting to happen.
One day it will be 200k dead all in a day.
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While I agree building codes should be enforced stop being a prohet of doom. Encourage our people to invest.
Yet the former strict building code has been ignored.
Most of the Rift is a disaster zone waiting to happen.
One day it will be 200k dead all in a day.
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Yet the former strict building code has been ignored.
Most of the Rift is a disaster zone waiting to happen.
One day it will be 200k dead all in a day.
it is not. it has limestone which makes ground sink. there no tectonic plates that meet in kenya
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I lived in NKR so I remember no building over 4 stories was allowed, but I guess not anymore. Looking at pics from Turkiye, recently coded buildings stood while others collapsed.
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I lived in NKR so I remember no building over 4 stories was allowed, but I guess not anymore. Looking at pics from Turkiye, recently coded buildings stood while others collapsed.
two 7.8 earthquakes at that shallowness will structurally damage most buildings. the reason for preventing of high rise buildings in nakuru was due to ground stability. also, people claim that statehouse in nakuru security was being used as a reason. anyway when an earthquake happens very little you can do and we have to way the cost benefit of once in a lifetime event plus the economic situation of the day
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It is indeed true, buildings over 4 floors were anathema , the CK Patel hardware building and later the Gilani office complex building changed the matrix, now an even taller building adjacent to Menengai high school is 'sprouting' ... read below on the Subukia earthquake of 1928
"The Subukia Valley earthquake in East Africa, magnitude 6.9, occurred on 1928 January 6. This is a little known earthquake associated with a 38 km long surface break that showed normal faulting with a small component of left lateral motion. Maximum throw was 240 cm with an average along the rupture of less than 100 cm. The earthquake triggered rockfalls and minor landslides and exhibited long-period effects at large distances. Considering the magnitude of the earthquake, the amount of damage it caused was not as great as it could have been. This is directly attributable to the sparsity of dwellings and the inherent resistance to earthquake shaking of the local type of huts. In the process of studying this earthquake, the seismicity of the (Gregory) Kenya Rift Valley has been re-evaluated. It is shown that relatively large but infrequent earthquakes do occur in the Kenya (Gregory) Rift Valley, a slowly extending region of low apparent seismicity, and that the seismic hazard of this part of East Africa, deduced from data of the last 95 years, is significant."
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Holy cow...6.9 if it comes now
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Holy cow...6.9 if it comes now
Japanese get those 6.9s and building still stand.
But in Nakuru??? I doubt.