A mechanical shake table with variable frequency and amplitude allows visitors to manually vary the earthquake load. The visitor selects a building model on a shake tray to investigate the effects of an earthquake on multi-level buildings, shorter buildings and the effect when the model is placed on a fluidised sand bed.
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