When it comes to natural disasters, the most unbearable thing is an earthquake. Compared with other disasters, humans can find response measures in advance to minimize damage, but earthquakes are different. Human science and technology have developed to this day, but they have not yet mastered effective methods to thoroughly predict earthquakes. This is the fact.
At present, humans' ways of dealing with earthquakes are mainly to improve the earthquake resistance level of buildings, enhance people's awareness of earthquake prevention, and do a good job in post-disaster rescue.
In fact, we ordinary people are still very powerless when facing earthquakes. As a modern city, earthquakes make people feel even more frightened, which even affects the floors when people choose housing.
So, once an earthquake occurs, is it safe to live on the top floor or the ground floor? This may be a subconscious concern to many people. Today we will make some simple analysis based on the experts' views.
From the perspective of housing, the ground floor and the top floor may not be very popular choices. The main defects on the ground floor are the common area of the elevator room, and the rooms on the first floor are relatively humid and have poor lighting. The top floor is mainly waterproofing pressure, and daily travel can only rely on elevators. Once there are sudden situations such as fires, earthquakes, etc., the top floor is quite helpless.
So when an earthquake occurs, what is the difference between the ground floor and the top floor? According to people's general view, the ground floor is undoubtedly the most advantageous floor in the earthquake.
Because as soon as an earthquake occurs, residents on the ground floor can quickly escape from the floor and escape. The top floor takes a lot of time and cannot use the elevator. Often the building collapses without running out. But is this really the case?
Experts said that the impact of earthquakes on buildings is not only shaking left and right, but also shaking up and down. Once the ground cracks, the bottom layer collapses the fastest and is buried the deepest, affecting the speed of the rescuers. Although higher floors are at risk of collapse, they are most likely to be discovered by rescuers and have a glimmer of hope.
Moreover, when a strong earthquake occurs, experts do not recommend running outdoors immediately, but should stay calm and run out of the building after the earthquake. Because during earthquakes, it is easy to be killed and injured by heavy objects falling from high altitudes, which has been proven in many earthquakes. In this way, the only speed advantage on the first floor will no longer exist.
To sum up, when an earthquake occurs, there is no safer statement whether it is the ground floor or the top floor. What is more important is how people perform when an earthquake occurs. When an earthquake occurs, people should stay calm as soon as possible and find safe spaces in buildings to hide. There is a place that everyone needs to pay special attention to, that is next to the heating.
Generally speaking, heating uses metal pipes and is not prone to breakage. Moreover, the heating pipes have good ventilation and water storage inside, which will greatly increase the chances of trapped people to survive. In addition, trapped people can send help information to the outside world by cracking down on the heating pipes and get help faster.
However, people in most parts of China don’t have to worry too much. Because buildings require certain earthquake resistance when building, for example, the earthquake resistance level of Beijing residential buildings is required to be magnitude 8, which is enough to withstand most earthquakes. We don’t have to worry, just follow the conventional anti-shock measures.
