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The University of California at San Diego has received a $5.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to run the world’s largest outdoor shake table for the next five years. The table, which can carry structures weighing up to 2,000 tons, can replicate the ground motions of most of the world’s largest earthquakes. It has been used since 2004 as a resource for NSF-funded researchers from around the nation to test innovative technologies and designs for seismic safety of new buildings and retrofitting techniques for existing structures. Full Story
Nigel Priestley, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, passed away peacefully on Tuesday Dec. 23 in Christchurch, New Zealand, surrounded by his wife, Jan, and children, after a long battle with cancer. Full Story
UC San Diego is getting more than $5 million over the next five years to run one of the world's largest earthquake simulators. The outdoor "shake table" has been helping researchers measure the impact of quakes since it opened in 2004. The device's size allows scientists to build realistic life-sized structures and then subject them to the same force meted out by the world's largest earthquakes. Full Story
UC San Diego announced Thursday that $5.2 million from the National Science Foundation will allow the university to continue to operate the world's largest outdoor earthquake "shake table' for the next five years. The table, which can carry structures weighing up to 2,000 tons, replicates the ground motions of large quakes. Full Story