No need to worry about #earthquakes. This school bends and doesn’t break. #shorts #schoollife

16 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ian Peterman. This content was uploaded by Ian Peterman. This is a YouTube video titled "No need to worry about #earthquakes. This school bends and doesn’t break. #shorts #schoollife" (created 2025-12-16). The excerpt is a narrated explanation by a single speaker describing a 1976 earthquake that killed many people when heavy adobe roof tiles fell during the quake, and explaining a demonstration project using tires as an alternative roofing/building technique to show long-term (15–20 year) performance in the same environment.

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Well, and we did this because in 1976 there was an earthquake and that earthquake killed a lot of people, right? And so people had built their homes out of adobe and then they put adobe tiles basically on the roof and those tiles were really heavy. And then the earth shook and then all those tiles fell inside of the house and those roofs fell on top of people. So that's why we were trying to use tires so much so that we could come up with an alternative. To that so that people could see how it's done. They could see that over 15 to 20 years, how it performed in the exact same environment and potentially decide to use it themselves.