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Author:
John Coletta
Posted:
03.22.2010

Chile, Haiti Earthquakes Point to Need for Quake-Proof Buildings

Two massive earthquakes in a single month – an 8.8 trembler in Chile and a 7.0 quake in Haiti – have raised the question of whether engineers can design buildings that don’t crumble when the earth’s tectonic plates crash against one another. Although the simple answer is that the technology exists to make buildings almost […]

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