Keywords: Molten salt, pebble-bed reactors; graphite reflector; annular tanks; seismic behavior; fluid-structure interaction; base isolation; design recommendations. Abstract: This report describes ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri emergency management officials are buying a $200,000 machine that will simulate an earthquake to prepare residents for a big temblor in a region where one of the most ...

This experimental program focuses at development, implementation, and validation of a novel control design strategy, based on impedance matching, for executing real-time hybrid simulations Real-time ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VISTA, Calif. — An earthquake simulator in ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...

SEATTLE - In Westlake Park, the City of Seattle is encouraging people to try out a new ride. It's called the "big shaker," a portable reality machine that lets somebody experience what it's like to ...

An earthquake can be an abstract concept, especially when you don't know if it will strike now or decades from now. But an earthquake simulator operated by northern California-based Ready America can ...

Researchers solving today’s most important and complex energy challenges can’t always conduct real-world experiments. This is especially true for nuclear energy research. Considerations such as cost, ...

A new fault simulator maps out how interactions between pressure, friction and fluids rising through a fault zone can lead to slow-motion quakes and seismic swarms. Earthquakes can be abrupt bursts of ...

Cal State Fullerton students were quite shaken up recently — for a good reason. CSUF was among three locations chosen statewide to host the Great California ShakeOut, providing the opportunity for the ...

BACK TO YOU GUYS. ALL RIGHT. THANKS SO MUCH, BRIAN. SO IF AN EARTHQUAKE WERE TO HIT, WOULD YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO? WELL, RIGHT NOW, CAL OES WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE ...

Shaking the rust off people’s emergency preparedness skills, an earthquake simulator that has been touring the state ahead of California’s annual drill stopped at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday, Oct ...