Japan: The resistance of the railways to the effect of earthquakes

As everyone knows, Japan is one of the most important countires all over the
world, their developing of technology has been a matching point int the progress of
the construction of trains and railways, because they improve on the usual way to
construct, wich implies that they make better the resistance of their structures to
the effects of quakes.
Since the World War II, Japan focus their development of technology in getting
better their railways, because they are located in one of the most active seismic
zone, wich means that they have at least one earthquake per day; that way,
Japanese engineers, start to search one way of improve the usual way of
constructions. Step by step, starting from the construction fo the faster line of trains
to the invent of levitation train, the Japanese system of railways goes from the
most basic ways to build, lets say structures that can resist earthquakes of 5.0 in
the Richters scale, to have the capacity of resist their most last important seismic
activity, in 2011, that was of a magnitude of 9.0 in the Richters scale. Is important
note that the massive lost of lifes that happened in that catastrophe was, almost in
their totality, caused by the tsunami that preceed the quake.
The secret behind the huge resistance of the railways in Japan is the Isolation
Seismic technology that they have been using sis 30 years ago, this technology is
based on the use of a plaques with a seismic resistant technology that activates an
emergency system that, when receives a signal from the seismograph, starts to
slow down the velocity of the train until it stops completely. I think that maybe this
system is the most effective, all over the world, in the matter of resistance; besides
another important point in their way of bu8ild is the use of materials that arent as
heavy as the ones we use in our country, thats because they need that all the
structures have a big oscillation period and with that, have an opportunity of create
interference with the oscillation period that comes from the waves of the
earthquake, and with that have structures with longer lifes.
In conclusion, in matter of civil engeenering and as a personal opinion, Japan has
the most amazing system of trains and railways, with an incredible resistance that
makes them one of the best countries with a great safety in their ways of transport.