ArchitectureWeek - Puzzler Question #454

Quiz . 02 December 2009


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Architecture Puzzler #454

If an old masonry building in your area started to sink into the ground, would you suspect subsidence or liquefaction as the cause?

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Catastrophic effects of a 1964 earthquake in Niigata, Japan.
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