(choose bedrock for your building area, make cross bracing via hole punching the middle of a straw and putting a straw in the hole, attach columns to the top of the tower via cutting or bending and taping the straw to the top, shear core is... a shear core)
This pagemight be a cheat sheet for building your quakeville building.
Ruler of Lake Titicaca. Rumored to have a bunghole that gets very angry if it does not receive toilet paper. Cornholio the Great is often seen walking around with his shirt over his head and his hands in the air, chanting songs about his power, and his bunghole.
"I am Cornholio! You do not want to face the wrath of my bunghole, for I need TP!"
Butthead: Shut up, Beavis! (uh huh huh huh)
Beavis: Um, okay. (heh heh heh heh).