Shaking and breaking in Japan Video

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Shaking and breaking in Japan
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: Japan's Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center tests real houses under earthquake conditions. This video shows the difference between two actual wooden houses, the one on the right retrofitted to limit damage.

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