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July 17, 2014
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 52-ton concrete bridge survived a series of 10 earthquakes in the first multiple-shake-table experiment at the University of Nevada's new Earthquake Engineering Lab in Reno.
The 70-foot bridge was shaken Tuesday in a series of simulated earthquakes, culminating in the large ground motions similar to those recorded in the deadly and damaging 1995 magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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