A 13.5'×19.5' two-story wood frame house representing San Francisco 1940's design of residential house a garage space on the first level was tested on the shaking table. The structure was subjected to scaled ground motion based on Los Gatos record from Loma Prieta 1989 earthquake. The strong motion time history was scaled to match design spectra of a site in Richmond district of San Francisco. The testing was aired as MSNBC Datelines on May 21, 2006.
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