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Seismic test of 7-story building will be world’s largest quake simulation on wood

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13 Jul, 2009

A multi-university team, led by Colorado State University, has placed a seven-story building – loaded with sensing equipment and video cameras – on a massive shake table, and will expose the building to the force of an earthquake that hits once every 2,500 years.

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