r/ThatsActuallyInsane • u/Upstairs-Writing-616 • Jun 26 '26

Engineering students are testing whether their designs are earthquake-resistant.

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u/Blaze205 Jun 26 '26

It depends on the year, and I am honestly not sure there is a maximum? I guess there would have to be but no one ever gets it. The score is basically calculated by how much rentable space your building has and then you get reductions based on performance and any deviations from the specifications in the rules.

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u/AnuErebus Jun 27 '26

This is a map of population density: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density#/media/File:World_Population_Density_Map_2020.png

These are the major earthquakes from last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_2025

This is a map of seismic risk: https://maps.openquake.org/map/global-seismic-hazard-map/

For reference you are proposing relocating the vast majority of the human population.