This is a really great little article that interviews Jonathan Bray, professor of civil engineering at Berkley. He describes geotechnical engineering for the layman as well as modern day earthquake engineering. He also briefly discusses some work being dome on using smart phone accelerometers to measure earthquake ground motion, an iShake app. [Source: Inside Bay Area. Image: Berkeley]
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