VIDEO: Seattle earthquake viaduct simulation released; timing politically motivated?

Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal , Safety , Technology , Videos Alaskan Way Viaduct earthquake simulation — Click above to watch video The Alaskan Way Viaduct (AWV) is an elevated roadway running along the Elliot Bay Waterway in Seattle. An earthquake in 2001 damaged the viaduct, and the structural degradation has only gotten worse over the years. To forestall the possibility of having the conduit collapse in another natural disaster, the city and Port of Seattle, King County, and the state …

Read the whole story at :
Autoblog

Topics: video, elliot bay waterway, seattle, safety

Related posts

• Video: Wedding gone wrong? Instead of dangling cans behind car, drunk drags vending machine
• Video: St. Louis exotic dealership employee nailed for 150 mph test drives on YouTube
• VIDEO: Man wins India Supreme Court case for ‘mountain goat’ claims about Chevy Forester
• VIDEO: London mayor nearly killed on cycle while doing recon for new city bike routes
• VIDEO: Finnish Him: Nordic authorities’ harpoon chase-ender amazingly never approved