geologist in New Zealand have a unexampled peter to help them measure the effects of earthquakes . It ’s called T - Rex , a 64,000 pound ( 29,000 kg ) shaker motortruck that ’s being provided by the U.S.connection for Earthquake Engineering Simulation .
The truck is being sent to New Zealand ’s South Island — location of the annihilative 2011 earthquake that destroy buildings and resulted in 185 expiry . Seismologists are hoping to gain data which will be used to create structure more resistant to quakes .
Writing in Wunderground , Beck Oskin explains :
The earthquakes make far-flung liquefaction , a phenomenon in which shake of water - logged land turns the deposit temporarily from a solid to a liquidness . The jiggly , wet soils undermined buildings and other structure . As many as 7,500 homes were abandoned . persona of downtown Christchurch continue cordoned off due to the encompassing damage .
The seismal information gather with T - Rex will inform engineer , on an area - by - area base , how to reconstruct structures in Christchurch to resist future temblor , according to a statement from the web for Earthquake Engineering Simulation . The seismal waves can find which soils are more likely to liquify , and which soils are more stable . railroad engineer can design structure to stand firm earthquakes , but first they need to know more about the soils in each area , the statement said .
More here .
Image : web of Earthquake Engineering .
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