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The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge(Worlds Longest Suspension Bridge)The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

Completed in year 1998.Worlds longest suspension span of 1,991 metres.The entire bridge, including the portions between the towers (1,991 m.) and the shores (960 m.), totals 3,911 metres.Maximum depth of about 110 metres.

The Akashi Kaikyo BridgeInvolved more than 100 contractors.Cost $3.6 billion.Total weight of 193,200 tons.Designed to resist a 150-kilometre-distant, 8.5-Richter-magnitude earthquake.Construction of the bridge took ten (10) years.With only six (6) injuries (no deaths).Tower 46,200 tonsCable 57,700 tonsGirder 89,300 tons3

36,830 individual strands of cable.

Fast Facts of AKBThe bridge is so long, it would take eight (8) Sears Towers laid end to end to span the same distance.The length of the cables used totals 300,000 kilometres, enough to circle the earth 7.5 times.The bridge holds three records: it is the longest, tallest, and most expensive suspension bridge ever built.