Quake Shakes Christchurch - Massive Engineering Mistakes - S05 EP508 - Engineering Documentary
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2024
- Witness the unforgiving power of nature and the resilience of human spirit in the face of the Christchurch earthquake and a silo sinking incident. Join us on a journey through disasters that tested our resolve and the lessons carved from devastation.
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Massive Engineering Mistakes is a riveting series that explores the daunting realm of architectural blunders and engineering catastrophes. From gravity-defying towers on the brink of collapse to bridges built upside-down and airports slowly sinking into the sea, these ambitious missteps redefine the boundaries of scientific innovation. Yet amidst chaos, the genius of human ingenuity shines, crafting solutions as awe-inspiring as the disasters themselves. Unveiling the precarious balance between triumph and failure, this show offers a thrilling journey into the world of spectacular engineering errors and their extraordinary rectifications.
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As a long term Christchurch resident, I thank you for an plain explanation given in this video. 2011 is still raw in our memories.
Clicked for the quake stuff and was delighted to see a hometown incident in this episode! From an engineering standpoint, the esker north-east of Winnipeg would have been a much better place to build a city. The actual site is down on a floodplain that offers deep alluvial sediments and no bedrock. Bonus: it's so flood-prone that the diversion that was built to protect it was the second-largest earth-moving project in the world at the time (beating out everything but the Panama Canal).
So that last building is like a giant glass harp