Sunday, January 20, 2008

VIDEO: Disaster Machines - What Scientists Use to Simulate Earthquakes

Scientists at the University of California use the "largest 'quake table' in the world to simulate devastating earthquakes." Video after the break.

this $9 million machine is the world?s only large-scale outdoor earthquake platform and, using hydraulics, is capable of shaking a 20 ton object horizontally at realistically high speeds
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[Source: Tech Blog]