The devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday have caused the deaths of over 23,000 people and the destruction of over 5,600 buildings and left the region a disaster area, but a company based out of Vallejo may have saved more lives...
Earthquake Protection Systems , housed in a 12-acre factory on Mare Island, builds gigantic"friction pendulum bearings" called seismic isolators, which essentially place huge structures like buildings, bridges and refineries on shifting plates that absorb the shock of large quakes.
"The entire area was devastated," Zayas said Thursday."Our hospital was bar far the biggest hospital in the entire area." EPS-protected buildings in Turkey are upwards of 12 stories tall. The hospital with EPS was able to immediately care for 3,000 patients after the disaster stuck, Zayas said.Over the years, the systems have protected at least 18 structures around the world from earthquakes, from South America to New Zealand.A seismic isolator is tested at Earthquake Protection Systems in Vallejo, Calif., on Feb. 10, 2023.
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