If it wasn’t for earthquakes, humans wouldn’t have innovated architecture
They wouldn’t have looked into new ways of building homes, but the problem is that we got good at it – good to the points our homes won’t be destroyed frequently enough aka they won’t evolute frequently.
If you look around you, there is very few free space - and in those spots you find big centers being eradicated everyday – safe and resistant enough – specially to earthquakes – what on earth will take down those inefficient dumb primitive beton monsters and make room for better buildings in the future ?
So the problem behind this is the ever expanding gap between technology and architecture : our homes will always be behind technology/progress – they will be always less optimal.
I can only imagine how better the earth will be if our houses were “smart” or modern enough – it is not science fiction – the way we build stuff is very retarded to say the least when it comes to the material used, energy saving, what a home can “do” and it is just not possible “business wise” to say : ok, let us destroy and rebuild.
Before, nature took care of this, slowly and “less painfully”
As little earthquakes happened, our primitive cities got “devastated”, we rebuilt them in a better way but the costs were small.
We kept gradually improving till our cities became resistant to medium/high earthquakes.
We reached this point of the graph where things slow down, become stable – it is cool not to have the tragedy and misery of earthquakes, but on the other hand there is the hidden and expensive cost of stability and non-progress. It is invisible and super slow but as devastating in its effect as that 2 minutes tragedy called earthquake
Our homes are costing the earth dearly and suffocating it – we need earthquakes to give engineers another better large-scale chance/try.
Before I start sounding too embarrassingly enthusiastic about earthquakes and destruction, here is a link on list of earthquakes – it has
- Main lists of earthquakes
- Historical earthquakes (before 1901)
- List of 20th century earthquakes (1901–2000)
- List of 21st century earthquakes (2001–present)
- Lists of earthquakes by country
- Largest earthquakes by magnitude
- Deadliest earthquakes on record
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