Question
In the movie, Se7en, Detective Mills and Tracy live in an apartment that vibrate when a train comes by.
How realistic is it? I would imagine building quality inspector would have disapproved its construction due to risks to building collapses over time.
Answer
Yes, according to dynamisassociates
there’s no doubt that subway-induced vibrations definitely affect the buildings above-ground. What the Dynamis team has discovered over the years of working on projects such as these is that the vertical vibration energy is predominant in subway-induced vibration, since the waves induced by the subway are mostly longitudinal. Therefore, this vertical vibration energy is then ‘transferred’ onto the buildings, causing the buildings to vibrate as well, and this vibration can sometimes exceed the average person’s level of tolerance.
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