{"id":5753,"date":"2009-10-01T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2009-10-01T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:47:53","slug":"highrise-buildings-and-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/10\/01\/highrise-buildings-and-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"highrise buildings and earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaysian are feeling the tremors even though the quakes are more than 300km away. People in Putrajaya, PJ, KL, Johor Bahru, Penang, and Kota Bahru\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/10\/1\/nation\/4820437&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">have reported<\/a><\/strong> about feeling tremors \u00a0and buildings swaying. 800 residents of government quarters were\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/10\/1\/nation\/4820118&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">barred from entering their homes<\/a><\/strong> after cracks were found on at least four walls of their 19-floor hospital quarters at Jalan Raja Muda Aziz following the tremors yesterday. I was on the road, so didn&#8217;t feel anything. \u00a0But still remember feeling tremors while in Bali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is Malaysia well-equipped to face effects of earthquakes from\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0countries? If a 9 0r 10 magnitude one hits Sumatera or Jawa, can our buildings withstand the effects? We are poised nicely along the basin of earthquake chains, so its just a matter of time before a big one happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Would you buy a apartment or condominium considering the above? Do housing\/building developers provide assurance to the prospective buyer on steps taken to ensure their buildings are protected against earthquake tremors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are those who are staying in apartments and condominium well prepared to face these kind of emergency? Are your children aware on what to do? Are you fit enough to take 5 (or more) \u00a0storeys of steps?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those working in\u00a0high-rise\u00a0buildings, have your employer conducted any fire drills or briefings? Are the emergency exits working? Do you know what to do in case of an emergency?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian are feeling the tremors even though the quakes are more than 300km away. People in Putrajaya, PJ, KL, Johor Bahru, Penang, and Kota Bahru\u00a0have reported about feeling tremors \u00a0and buildings swaying. 800 residents of government quarters were\u00a0barred from entering their homes after cracks were found on at least four walls of their 19-floor hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions\/5756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}