What: Building which can deal with an earthquake and a
tsunami
When: begin to
invent from now and complete by the time a big earthquake attack Japan
Where: build in
Japan
Who: people who
live in Japan, especially live near the sea or a river
Why: In Japan, a
lot of earthquakes happen every year, and sometimes an enormous earthquake
strike Japan. From the past, many people have suffered and have been killed by
earthquakes or a tsunami occurred by
the earthquakes. We have to work out the measure to protect ourselves lives.
Then, the building which we are going to invent is the best solution.
Background: It is
said that Japan is one of the country which undergoes a lot of earthquakes in
the world and is the country which suffer tsunamis
the most times in the world. In fact, earthquakes occur almost every day
under Japan and the area near Japan, if including small ones. Moreover, there
is no place in Japan which isn’t attacked by an earthquake. According to the
date of this 10 years, excepting 2011, 1000-3200 earthquakes happened every
year. In 2011, there were more than 10000 earthquakes happened.
People live in
Japan have been damaged by earthquakes and tsunamis
occurred by them. For example, in 2011, a big earthquake happened under the
pacific ocean near East Japan. The disaster caused by this is called “the Great
East Japan Earthquake”. This is the biggest earthquake which have ever damaged
Japan, and killed more than 15000people. 90% of them were drowned, and most of
other people were killed by rubble floated by tsunami. If the buildings
had been able to avoid the shock of the earthquake and the tsunami, many of them were alive now.
So, we hit upon
this idea!
How: Today usual
building can’t fly. So a big swing which earthquake makes destroys the building. Also usual
building is too heavy not to float on the water. But the building which we hit
on is covered by very light and soft material like superball. The material
includes bubbles. And we can control the quantity of the bubbles and the
position of them. When swings happen, we control the bubbles, the building can
jump during earthquake. If big tsunami attacks, the bubbles support the
building, at last, the building never sinks under the tsunami. So what are in
the building such as computers, papers, of course, people are safe. Furthermore, as the material is so light,
even though the building is high and falls down, the damage might be minimum
and the victims must be few. Moreover, the building is soft, people in outside
can catch it. If people crash the floating building, they may have injury. If
the idea were held, in addition to the office building, we could devise the
idea to house and school, all of building. Also we can think that the idea can
be useful when tornado happen. So the idea can be also used in the country
which earthquake doesn’t occur.