Talk:Triangle of Life

message: I have stubbed this article as it is riddled with unsourced claims and weak prose, in response to complaints sent to WP:OTRS.  Please rebuild it as you see fit, citing sources for all assertions.  The Uninvited Co., Inc. 18:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: Additional material must be carefully sourced; please note Mr. Copp is proceeding with a defamation suit in the courts of New York based on previously linked material.  Please be mindful of the sources of material cited in this article.--Brad Patrick 18:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
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message: There is definitely notability in this article.  The fact that it is controversial does not make it lose its notability.  If not covered here, the subject should be mentioned in the article on Doug Copp --rxnd ( t | € | c ) 19:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: A cursory review of the text of one e-mail and the website at www.amerrescue.org indicates weak writing skills that obscure a potentially valuable message. The "triangle of life" theory seems to offer the great promise. I'll keep it in mind.
My personal experience includes a few minor earthquakes and a major one that seemed endless -- the big one was in Anchorage, Alaska March 27, 1964; it reportedly lasted five (yes, 5) minutes at 8.4 on the Richter Scale. I recall seeing waves about 1-2 feet in height form on a frozen gravel road; the waves come down the street at about 30 mph or so, with wave-tops about 100 feet apart.
Since then, I became a real estate professional with expertise in commercial buildings, including office buildings, shopping centers and warehouse buildings. My memory of the earthquake endures. I much prefer to have my firm's office located in flexible structures, not rigid, pre-cast concrete ones. Limber wood-frame buildings fared well during the great Alaskan earthquake. I recall the buildings that failed or collapsed were usually rigid tilt-up and pre-cast concrete structures; they fell like houses made of a deck of cards. 
I vividly recall reports that most buildings didn't fail for the first two minutes or so during the Alaskan 'quake. Experts report that repeated flexing produces changes in subsoil, foundations and superstructures, those changes interact with gravity, producing often catastrophic failures. My father, a career engineer with the CAA (now the Federal Aviation Agency), was not happy about the deadly collapse of the control tower at Anchorage International Airport -- the multi-story building pancaked in 1964; he subsequently advocated more enduring designs. I hope current construction standards provide for connections and other features that enable structures to flex for several minutes. It is clear the San Francisco-Oakland freeway bridges didn't pass muster when they pancaked the commuting cars. I believe the videos show signs of similar shortcomings in the buildings that failed during China's 2008 earthquake.
If possible, I evacuate PROMPTLY and get AWAY from things that may fall during earthquakes - like overhead walls and floors and building curtainwalls. I know of a fellow who died when the concrete panels on the 3-story JC Penney store sheared off, crushing onto the sidewalk as he stepped outside. A friend who experienced the Alaskan earthquake as a youth was in San Francisco during their "big" 20-second quake circa 1989. His co-workers were amazed when he vacated a basement office in an old brick building and made it to the street-level sidewalk and then to the middle of the street before the ground stopped shaking. He wasted no time on the stairs. I would have done the same. 
My thoughts: get clear of heavy items that may fall or find a safe void. 
72.42.135.206 (talk) 21:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
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message: This email does seem common enough for an article, but I'm surprised we don't have a category for such... maybe we need a Category:viral emails? It doesn't really fit :Category:Internet memes. Maybe a list of common viral emails would be a worthwhile addition, too. Andrewa (talk) 23:02, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
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message: The 30,000 people killed by pancaking buildings in the Turkey disaster make it beyond obvious that this article, no matter how well cited, is plainly wrong in that it doesn't qualify the claims it makes geographically. The citations are heavily US based and hastily generalized without making this clear. Anyone outside US seeking to protect their lives by using the information in this article will likely die. This makes the article at best irresponsible, at worst criminal. Please take down and reevaluate if Wikipedia still has the slightest interest in safeguarding human life. 2A02:2F00:210D:A900:CEE:F5EB:218:3AD6 (talk) 19:34, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says that different strategies might be appropriate in different countries, so this concern seems to have been addressed. I haven't seen any scientifically rigorous evidence (meaning statistical studies, not anecdotes) that shows Triangle of Life is the best strategy in Turkey or any other specific location. If you are aware of any sources that do so, that would be interesting to add to the article. -- Beland (talk) 18:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
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