VIDEO: Engineers come up with cheap new design to make earthquake resistant house

10/17/2014 - 00:00

By Amber Dance - 

Stanford engineers have built and tested an earthquake-resistant house that stayed staunchly upright even as it shook at three times the intensity of the destructive 1989 Loma Prieta temblor 25 years ago.

The engineers outfitted their scaled-down, boxy two-story house with sliding "isolators" so it skated along the trembling ground instead of collapsing.

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