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July 1999

Concrete Left Standing

Fake earthquakes test safer building methods

By Rebecca Zacks

They're not going to huff and they're not going to puff, but researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) are wielding 10 huge hydraulic jacks that could easily bring a shoddily constructed house down. The team is using the jacks to subject a 60-percent-scale model of a five-story concrete building to a series of simulated earthquakes; like the third little pig, they believe they've got a better building technique that will keep their structure standing.

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