Road pavements are not designed to withstand earthquakes. Pavement damage can be repaired relatively quickly compared to bridge damage. So it is not necessary to design seismic resistance into pavements.
In a moderate earthquake, pavements are already flexible enough to just roll with the ground motion. The most likely damage will be buckling and faulting. For asphalt pavement, you just need to grind and repave. For concrete pavement, all you need to do is patch or replace slabs.
Bridges are what takes longer to repair. That is why bridges get more attention in seismic resistance.
Earthquakes make a complete bloody mess of them. Earthquakes are so powerful that it is pretty well impossible, not to say prohibitively expensive, to build earthquake-proof roads. Even relative minor earth tremors will cause the roadbed to sink and heave with the consequent destruction of the road surface.
Lomg term: Their financial gadget will drop huge time because of the quantity destuction. no person will circulate to for vaccation and no person would be waiting to discover the money for something. short term result: Pehaps that they could re-construct each and every thing. it sort of feels each and every 12 months there's a disaster.
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Road pavements are not designed to withstand earthquakes. Pavement damage can be repaired relatively quickly compared to bridge damage. So it is not necessary to design seismic resistance into pavements.
In a moderate earthquake, pavements are already flexible enough to just roll with the ground motion. The most likely damage will be buckling and faulting. For asphalt pavement, you just need to grind and repave. For concrete pavement, all you need to do is patch or replace slabs.
Bridges are what takes longer to repair. That is why bridges get more attention in seismic resistance.
Earthquakes make a complete bloody mess of them. Earthquakes are so powerful that it is pretty well impossible, not to say prohibitively expensive, to build earthquake-proof roads. Even relative minor earth tremors will cause the roadbed to sink and heave with the consequent destruction of the road surface.
Lomg term: Their financial gadget will drop huge time because of the quantity destuction. no person will circulate to for vaccation and no person would be waiting to discover the money for something. short term result: Pehaps that they could re-construct each and every thing. it sort of feels each and every 12 months there's a disaster.
When the earth shifts, so do the roads.
All you can do is try to connect the shifted pieces.