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This is the Ministry of Justice.
這是司法部。
Behind that door is the National Judicial Archives.
那扇門后是國家司法檔案館。
The fellow in the door, Andre Filitrault --
門旁站著的是安德烈·菲利亞特羅，
who's the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Earthquake Engineering Research at the University of Buffalo --
他是布法羅大學(xué)跨學(xué)科地震工程研究中心的負責(zé)人，
was examining it to see if it was safe to recover the archives.
他正在檢查這棟建筑，以確認是否可以安全的重建檔案館。
Andre told me,
安德烈告訴我，
after seeing these buildings fail again and again in the same way, that there is no new research here.
在看到這些建筑不斷的以同種方式倒下后，這兒沒什么新的發(fā)現(xiàn)了。
There is nothing here that we don't know.
沒什么我們不知道的了。
The failure points were the same:
問題的根源是相同的--
walls and slabs not tied properly into columns --
墻和樓板之間沒有用柱子正確的連接起來--
that's a roof slab hanging off the building -- cantilevered structures,
這是掛在建筑上的天臺樓板--懸臂式結(jié)構(gòu)，
or structures that were asymmetric,
或是非對稱結(jié)構(gòu)，
that shook violently and came down,
劇烈搖晃并垮塌，
poor building materials, not enough concrete,
低劣的建筑材料，沒有足夠的混凝土，
not enough compression in the blocks, rebar that was smooth,
塊與塊之間沒有足夠的壓縮空間，螺紋鋼表面光滑，
rebar that was exposed to the weather and had rusted away.
螺紋鋼暴露在空氣中并已經(jīng)生銹了。
Now there's a solution to all these problems.
現(xiàn)在對所有這些問題有個解決方案。
And we know how to build properly.
我們知道如何進行適當(dāng)?shù)慕ㄔO(shè)。
The proof of this came in Chile, almost a month later,
證明來自智利，大約一個月后，
when 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile.
當(dāng)時8.8級的地震襲擊了智利。
That is 500 times the power of the 7.0 that hit Port-au-Prince --
五百倍與7.0級地震的力量襲擊了太子港--
500 times the power, yet only under a thousand casualties.
五百倍的能量，然而只造成了低于一千的傷亡。
Adjusted for population density,
考慮到人口密度，
that is less than one percent of the impact of the Haitian quake.
這次地震造成的影響小于海地地震的百分之一。
What was the difference between Chile and Haiti?
智利與海地之間有什么不同？
Seismic standards and confined masonry,
抗震標(biāo)準(zhǔn)和磚石結(jié)構(gòu)，
where the building acts as a whole --
建筑物作為一個整體--
walls and columns and roofs and slabs tied together to support each other --
墻、柱子、屋頂和樓板連接在一起，相互支撐，
instead of breaking off into separate members and failing.
以免斷裂成塊，墜落下來。
If you look at this building in Chile,
你看看智利的這棟建筑，
it's ripped in half, but it's not a pile of rubble.
它裂成兩半，但并沒有變成一堆瓦礫。
Chileans have been building with confined masonry for decades.
智利人用磚混結(jié)構(gòu)建筑房屋已經(jīng)有幾十年了。
