It is dangerous for a house when a natural gas line ruptures by a struck of a earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7! The entire house can get engulfed in a ball of flames in moments.
To ensure that such a scenario never becomes reality, Thomas O’Rourke, an engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues have completed building the earthquake-proof pipelines — the a high-density polyethylene pipe buried under more than 100 tons (91 metric tons) of sand.
He is testing the strength and durability of various pipelines at the earthquake simulation laboratory of the University. These pipeline systems are made in a way that they bend and move with the changing geography generated by an earthquake — and not snap and rupture.
