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Hi--  I have two suggestions.

1.  We developed a very successful exhibit using blocks and rods on a 
shaking table, as part of our traveling exhibition Tech City.  If you 
are patient, you can see it in action just over 1/2 way through the 
quicktime video on the website

http://www.sciencenter.org/exhibits/ExhibitionsForRent.htm

This was so popular we included two copies in the final exhibition.  The 
exhibition was about engineering-- and we found a lot of good 
conversations about the tradeoffs between cost and safety-- the more 
reinforcing you do the more expensive the building.  No one was 
interested in actually counting blocks/rods and totally a nominal cost 
(we tried this in prototyping)..

I'll be happy to email digital photos to anyone interested.

2.  We're also going to be working with a group of researchers at 
Cornell University, as the outreach component for a NEESR grant.  NEES 
is a collaborative of a number of research institutions engaged in 
different aspects of earthquake research.  

One of the things we'll most likely be using there is a table-top 
earthquake table developed by Quanser corporation a few years ago for 
testing on a small scale; they initially developed it for a different 
(UCIST) research consortium but sell two different models now 
(one-direction called Table II, or x-y shake table that goes in two 
directions called ).  These setups come with table and software that is 
somewhat sophisticated (for museum visitors for sure) but enables you to 
control and test different variables, or simulate different quakes.

http://www.quanser.com/english/downloads/products/Shake_Table_III_brochure.pdf
http://www.quanser.com/english/downloads/products/Specialty/QuanserShakeTable_II_PIS.pdf

Kathy Krafft
Director of Exhibits
Sciencenter
Ithaca, New York
607-272-0600 ext 25

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>
> Subject:
> earthquake exhibition
> From:
> banu ozden <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:00:58 -0800
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> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology 
> Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and 
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> Hi, We are a new science center and the first one in Turkey We are 
> organizing an exhibition on earthquakes. We will need materials, 
> films, photos and hands-on activities. We would like to get guidance 
> and input from other science centers. Thus, I am trying to identify 
> the science centers which has or recently had exhibitions on 
> earthquakes. Please email me back if you know any science centers in 
> USA which can help. Thank you, B Banu Ozden Istanbul Science Center 
> Turkey Professor Computer Science Dept. University of Southern 
> California http://pollux.usc.edu/~ozden/who/ozden.html [log in to unmask] 
> 310 663 9308

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