Press Clips Archive

UCSD Conducts Seismic Test

10News.com | May 18, 2012

UC San Diego researchers conducted a seismic test in an effort to find out if vital buildings such as hospitals can hold up during strong earthquakes. Full Story

Engineers Launch Artificial Quakes at 'Hospital' BBC News

BBC News | May 7, 2012

Engineers in California have unleashed high-intensity artificial earthquakes on a five-storey building packed with medical equipment. Full Story

Preparing for the big one

NBC Nightly News | April 18, 2012

Scientists use the largest ?shake table? in the U.S. (at UC San Diego) to replicate big earthquakes, gathering valuable data that demonstrate how earthquakes affect buildings. NBC?s Miguel Almaguer reports. Full Story

Quake Test Could Prompt Ways to Shore Up Hospitals

ABC News | April 18, 2012

What happens when a series of massive earthquakes hits a five-story medical facility with an intensive care unit, operating room and elevator?Structural engineers at the University of California, San Diego, began tests Tuesday to find out.Over the next two weeks, they will repeatedly rock an 80-foot-high building erected on a giant shake table as part of a $5 million experiment funded by government agencies, foundations and others. Full Story

With Man-made Quakes, Engineers Test Lifesaving Technologies

CBS News | April 18, 2012

Structural engineers and researchers at the University of California have begun tests to determine what would happen when a series of massive earthquakes strikes a large medical building. Over the next two weeks, they will be shaking an 80-foot-high building. It's hard to tell from the outside, but on Monday the five-story building experienced an 8.8 earthquake, moving just inches in each direction. Full Story