Did We not make the earth habitable? And the mountains as pegs? (78:6-7)". The purpose of earthquake resistant design is to allow inelastic deformation and structural damage at preferred locations in the structure without endangering structural integrity and to prevent structural collapse during a major earthquake. In general, most earthquake code provisions implicitly require that structures be able to resista. Minor Earthquakes without any damage.b. Moderate earthquakes without negligible structural damage and some nonstructural damage.c. Major earthquakes with some structural and some...