MAGA STRUCTURE: Taipei 101 in Taiwan

Taipei 101 in Taiwan

Posted in | at 1:26 PM

I like big cities. I also like interesting facts, geography, and statistics. Occasionally, I wondered what the biggest cities in the world are. Anyways, here is a picture that inpired me. At more than 500 metres, Taipei 101 in Taiwan is temporarily the world’s tallest building.

What is interesting about the Taipei 101 is that recent studies show that somehow the building is causing earthquakes. The “sheer size of the Taiwan skyscraper has raised unexpected concerns that may have far-reaching implications for the construction of other buildings and man-made megastructures. Taipei 101 is thought to have triggered two recent earthquakes because of the stress that it exerts on the ground beneath it.”

This is 700,000 tons of stress – and it “may have reopened an ancient earthquake fault.”