World’s largest earthquake damper - Taiwan


	World’s largest earthquake damper - Taiwan

hitchhiker08

6-25-2008 1:11 AM

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earthquake damper, taipei, china, skyscraper, calmity, disaster, physics, structural engineering

hitchhiker08 says:

The video of it in action (see end of clip) during the earthquake of May 12 is quite awesome!

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6-25-2008 3:08 AM

jmjoness

Truly amazing.

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