It’s kind of like “Jenga,” except this time the tower didn’t collapse: Engineers in the US created the tallest structure ever tested on a shake table, two of the most destructive earthquakes in recent years, in the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator . history exposed. Successfully. The secret: a special material and a special construction.
In Europe alone, earthquakes in the 20th century claimed more than 200,000 lives and caused damage worth more than €250 billion. Calculations by the Seismology and Geodynamics Group at ETH Zurich are the main factors influencing earthquake risk in Europe.
Source: Krone
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