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| Earthquake engineer Mete Sozen of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign emphasizes that one of the lessons of the Mexico City quake is that even with the best available knowledge, earthquake effects may still be unpredictable. This phenomenon of soil liquefaction sounds very esoteric," says earthquake engineer Ricardo Dobry of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. The central part of Mexico City, on the other hand, sits atop a drained lake bed consisting of 46 meters of soft clay, which vibrates "like a bowl of jelly when seismic waves come through the ground beneath it," says earthquake engineer George Housner of Caltech in Pasadena. |
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