Soft Story
Soft Story :
A building story that has significantly less stiffness than the story above. Some buildings with parking at ground level (and thus fewer walls or columns) or an otherwise open ground story have this condition. The term is sometimes also applied to a story that has less strength than the one above, a condition that is more precisely termed a weak story. (USGS, Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country, 2007, Glossary)
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