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Inside Science: Building an Earthquake Resistant Home

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Engineers at Stanford University have designed a building that sits on a seismic isolator and is earthquake-resistant. When an actual house was tested on a shake table with a powerful earthquake simulation, the structure itself was undamaged. Published: Feb. 25, 2015 [3:38]

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