Laboratory Earthquake Testing (IMAGE)

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Laboratory Earthquake Testing

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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a two-dimensional tabletop simulator that models the buildup and release of stress along an artificial fault. In this image, the simulator is viewed through a polarized camera lens, photo-elastic plates reveal discrete points of stress buildup along both sides of the modeled fault as the far (upper) plate is moved laterally along the fault.

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Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory

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