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Abstract

In countries with "traditional" catastrophic events due to hurricanes or typhoons shelters are provided, but they generally occur in either low-rise buildings, single family - in basement areas or even to smaller communities. There are some items and materials for a period of survival and of course there are so varied range of shelters, made by different companies, with different prices. For single-family houses, villas type can easily be made conformable projects such shelters or safe rooms, including their use in case of an earthquake, but what can be done in the higher buildings case? Based on a personal idea, a similar sfatey room variant, usable for multi-storey buildings (and so in each apartment, at every level), is presented in this paper for use in earthquake cases.