When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, people inside the island’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, were protected ... a number of other design features that increase its ...

The Taipei 101 in Taiwan is massive. It is 508m tall and has 101 floors. It is also home to the world’s largest and heaviest tuned mass damper. Due to its vast size, the skyscraper is prone to ...

Taipei 101’s resilience against earthquakes can be attributed to several factors - construction materials to solid foundations and mass damper suspended inside. At least ten people died, and ...

Taiwan has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years ... shows the island's tallest building – the $1.8 billion Taipei 101 skyscraper – gently swaying like a stick in the breeze.

The powerful earthquake in Taiwan on Wednesday ... That includes Taipei 101, the island’s tallest tower, which features a 660-metric-ton steel ball suspended with cables in its upper stories ...

The country’s tallest building, the 1,667-ft Taipei 101, appeared to perform well in the earthquake ... buildings that are not sufficiently quake resistant.

Despite the fact that tall buildings are particularly susceptible to seismic damage, the building only experienced minimal swaying during the earthquake ... engineers designed Taipei 101 to be ...

Thanks to his 'Tuned Mass Damper', a sort of maxi pendulum that balances the shocks, the Taipei 101 skyscraper indeed did not collapse after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook the small ...