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tsunamis: where to build walls
According to Fryer, the basic architecture of the buildings that survived serves as a take-home lesson from the catastrophe. All were built so that their load-bearing walls would escape a direct hit from incoming waves.
I'm finding tips like this all over the place but no central point for this kind of simple building advice and analysis. Anyone else found one?
MORE AT:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0428_050428_tsunamibuildings.html
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