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Rethinking defense with earthquake engineering

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Rethinking defense with earthquake engineering

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    After a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto, Japan, on Tuesday last week, an elevated bridge was left badly misaligned with its deck buckling upward, yet it did not completely collapse. To the naked eye, the bridge appears to have failed, but from an engineering standpoint, it ac…

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