A team of Stanford engineers have built and tested an earthquake-resistant house that sits on top of sliding “isolators” to ride out tremors. The test house, which also makes use of heavy-duty reinforcing, withstood an earthquake simulation that was three times the intensity of the Bay Area’s devastating 1989 Loma Prieta quake. The team says the modifications are inexpensive and could easily be used in new home construction where their costs would soon be offset by reduced earthquake insurance premiums. Read the rest of VIDEO: Stanford Team Successfully Tests Earthquake-Resistant House Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: disaster preparedness , earthquake , earthquake resistant house , earthquake-resistant design , engineering , house on slide resists earthquake , natural disaster , San Francisco , seismic isolator , stanford
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VIDEO: Stanford Team Successfully Tests Earthquake-Resistant House
