What if earthquakes last a whole year?

The Earth could be full of great events, but today there is only one major event: continuous earthquakes lasting for a whole year. Life under these unsettling conditions would be challenging. Children would struggle to cope with these circumstances. What could you do to adapt to this turbulent lifestyle? Here's a scenario: Imagine if earthquakes continued for a whole year. The tectonic plates of the Earth are constantly moving, and as they move against each other, the pressure increases. Eventually, this force overcomes friction and leads to an earthquake. Such earthquakes can happen at any time, and if they occur continuously, it would be the ultimate test for the resilience of many buildings. While buildings may be good at dealing with vertical forces due to weight and gravity, they are not well-equipped to handle the distinct forces of earthquakes. By using innovative designs and materials like flexible foundations, shock absorption mechanisms, and shape memory alloys, buildings can better withstand earthquakes. But in such harsh conditions, would the only safe place for you be in the middle of a field? There are 20,000 earthquakes every year, so if one happened near you, how would you feel? Well, that depends on how close you are to the epicenter of the earthquake. If you're nearby, you'll experience a sudden jolt followed by strong shaking. Even in the strongest earthquakes, shaking usually lasts only a few minutes, but in this scenario, it would last for a whole year. Coping with all of this would be challenging, as unsecured items would likely fall, and violent shaking could move buildings off their foundations, causing significant property damage. Even the most resilient buildings would struggle to endure continuous shaking, resulting in escalating financial and human costs. If the earthquake persists, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people would be forced to evacuate their homes, and many would die. If you're lucky enough to be far from the earthquake's center, all of this would be less dramatic. You'd usually just feel a slight tremor. However, because the earthquake wouldn't end for some time, you'd constantly feel a sense of rolling and shaking, keeping your senses in a constant state of alertness. You'd witness one thing while feeling something else in your muscles, and your inner ear would sense something entirely different. These mixed signals would disrupt your mind and cause disorientation and nausea most of the time, even if you don't usually suffer from motion sickness. Exposure to regular earthquakes could make you extremely vigilant and constantly on the edge for the next quake, potentially leading to depression as your home is no longer safe. But life would go on, and you'd have to find some way to adapt to earthquakes completely. Just as many people in the Midwest of the United States have adjusted their daily lives to accommodate the threat of tornadoes, the bigger challenge is reconsidering how we design our buildings. There are already many innovative technologies that can enhance these structures, but we need to be more creative. One innovative building material that researchers can explore is spider silk. This material hardens under pressure, and when more pressure is added, it expands near the point of collapse and hardens again. This is exactly how a spider's web interacts with insects. The damage resulting from the collision is limited to the distance between the strands of the web, greatly reducing the impact and keeping the web intact. It may seem strange to imagine buildings of the future being designed and constructed using spider webs, but it's possible. They could be designed and built by spiders !!