Building designs are put to the test on the University of California-San Diego shake table, where engineers recreate destructive earthquakes to help make our structures safer and survivable. Jorge Ribas reports.
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province in China on May 12th, 2008. and this is the video shot by a college student in his dorm 50 kilometers away from the earthquake center when the earthquake happened. the latest official casualty report is 12012, plus more than 60000 missing.
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is an international research collaborative headquartered at the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences. To understand earthquakes and their effects, SCEC coordinates a research program funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Geological Survey. SCEC involves more than 500 academic and government researchers working at more than 50 institutions worldwide. Tom Jordan, University Professor and holder of the William M. Keck Foundation …
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