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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February 13, 2013
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I stumbled across this great answer to that question from Geotechnical consulting firm Tierra Group International, LTD a geotechnical consulting firm servicing the mining industry: Mankind lives on the earth. Everything built, either originated from, […]