Engineering Lab Shakes Up Six Story Structure

The earth is moving inside a University of California seismic engineering lab appropriately named the Center for Extreme Events Research. Rather than use a small scale model for testing, engineers have constructed what may be the world's largest seismic shake table and placed a six-story structure on it. As the building is put through a series of 6.7 and larger seismic events, researchers gather realistic, real-time data on how a cold steel-framed building reacts under such pressure.

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