UC San Diego and UC Berkeley have research teams surveying damage in Turkey and collecting data that will help California prep for 'the big one.'
Much of the data collected will be shared with scientists and engineers at some of University of California campuses. UC San Diego will use the data in its"shake table" project.
The table is a 40 x 25-foot steel plate, with a heavy hydraulics system powering it to recreate earthquakes and provide valuable information in an effort to make buildings more quake-safe. Lelli Van Den Einde is a structural engineering professor at UC San Diego. She has been involved with the"shake table" project since its beginning in 2004.
“Right now we’ve got people on the ground looking at the structures and the failures, and looking at the actual design codes and the buildings, trying to assess where the weaknesses are at this point," Van Den Einde said.
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