{"id":81734,"date":"2018-08-15T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/indonesia-earthquake-how-scrap-tyres-could-stop-buildings-collapsing"},"modified":"2018-08-15T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:03:16","slug":"indonesia-earthquake-how-scrap-tyres-could-stop-buildings-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/indonesia-earthquake-how-scrap-tyres-could-stop-buildings-collapsing","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia earthquake\u2014how scrap tyres could stop buildings collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSwjkG3nv1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/13\/asia\/lombok-earthquake-intl\/index.html\">436 people have died<\/a> following an earthquake in the Indonesian island of Lombok. A further 2,500 people have been hospitalised with serious injuries and over 270,000 people have been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes are one of the deadliest natural disasters, accounting for just 7.5% of such events between 1994 and 2013 but causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emdat.be\/sites\/default\/files\/adsr_2016.pdf\">37% of deaths<\/a>. And, as with all <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+disasters\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural disasters<\/a>, it isn\u2019t the countries that suffer the most earthquakes that see the biggest losses. Instead, the number of people who die in an earthquake is related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cred.be\/downloadFile.php?file=sites\/default\/files\/PubID266Earthquakes.pdf\">how developed<\/a> the country is.<\/p>\n<p>In Lombok, as <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/10\/asia\/nepal-earthquake-death-toll\/\">in Nepal in 2015<\/a>, many deaths were caused by the widespread collapse of local rickety houses incapable of withstanding the numerous aftershocks. More generally, low quality buildings and inadequate town planning are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emdat.be\/sites\/default\/files\/adsr_2016.pdf\">two main reasons<\/a> why seismic events are more destructive in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-indonesia-earthquakehow-scrap-tyres-collapsing.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-indonesia-earthquakehow-sc...psing.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of writing, 436 people have died following an earthquake in the Indonesian island of Lombok. A further 2,500 people have been hospitalised with serious injuries and over 270,000 people have been displaced. Earthquakes are one of the deadliest natural disasters, accounting for just 7.5% of such events between 1994 and 2013 but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}