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Making Waves: New Research Could Minimize Impact Of Future Tsunami
For the first time, a team of experts is preparing to create tsunami in a controlled environment in order to study their effects on buildings and coastlines - ultimately paving the way for the design of new structures better able to withstand their impact.
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Bridges Will Rock -- Safely -- with New Quake Design
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER.
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Mapping the wake of a pending quake
The seismically active Indonesian island of Sumatra has been hit repeatedly by tsunamis in the past -- and may now be due for another