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September 26, 2007

Seismic engineer brings back lessons from Peru

By SHAWNA GAMACHE
Journal Staff Reporter

Photo courtesy of Kent Yu, Degenkolb Engineers [enlarge]
A soldier guards the rubble of a retail building one block west of the central plaza in Pisco, Peru. In Pisco, 90 percent of adobe buildings collapsed and approximately 360 people died from an 8.0 earthquake Aug. 15.

Q: What happened to buildings in Peru?


 
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