The first full-scale test of the facility, is timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the Kobe earthquake on January 17 next year.
One month ago we read about the 4-metre-wide square platform used to simulate earthquakes in a giant lab in Mexico.
The Japanese table can hold a seven-storey, 300 square metre (3,200 sq ft)office block — the standard size throughout Japan — and “quake†it. The japanese engineers also plan to test Wooden-frame houses and large civil structures such as dams and reservoir walls.
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