Clearly, there is a growing need to understand how ancient structures and monuments respond to faulting and ground shaking.
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Participants produced a ground shaking map of the Dead Sea region and training courses in PSHA, HAZUS, David Boore's Ground Shaking and other software have been given.
We felt the ground shaking after initially hearing what we thought was a very large lorry approaching, then the floor started shaking and an small aftershock occurred a few seconds later!
The class teaches students to "duck, cover and hold" when the ground starts shaking.
Sauropodomorphs included ground-shaking giants like Apatasaurus, and ornithischians included a range of dinosaurs, such as Stegosaurus and Triceratops.
Frightened residents of Mexico City, 185 miles from the quake's epicenter, ran into the streets as the ground began shaking.
But there are some achievements so notable, so ground-shaking, that even within the short space of a few decades we can feel their impact.
"It would have been totally irresponsible to have set about rebuilding somebody's house ... whilst the ground is shaking, only to have it severely damaged again or destroyed by the next quake that comes along, " said Tim Grafton, chief executive of the New Zealand Insurance Council, an industry group.
It's possible that a flash of light and shaking of the ground would be the first indications that something happened.
Chakalis was riding in a hydraulic elevator in her West Hollywood apartment building at 2:30 a.m. in July 2005 when the cab began shaking and then dropped six floors to the ground.
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