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The paper explores the reasons behind the tolerance of unsafe buildings in earthquake-prone areas, highlighting the complexities of defining safety and acceptable risk from both engineering and socio-cultural perspectives. It discusses the paradoxes in current engineering practices, the variability in risk perception across cultures, and the socio-economic factors that hinder the implementation of safer building standards. Ultimately, it emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary approach to address the ch

Author

ryan rakhmat

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EN