Cornell University researchers tested a new earthquake-resilient pipeline designed to better protect southern California’s water utility network from natural disasters on July 20, 2016. They ran multiple tests, including an earthquake simulation in which a 28-foot-long section of the pipe was outfitted with more than 120 monitoring instruments and buried within 80 tons of soil – an experiment that took over a month for the research team to prepare.
Credit: Robert Barker, Cornell University
