[GSBN] PAKSBAB Shake Table Tests

[Marcus Hardwick]

Looks like this story is gaining some traction:

*Round 4: Stirred but not shaken!:
*Buy that woman a drink.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/04/friday-cocktail-dash-wolves-splash-dolphins-jigger-straw-bale-house-shake-over-i

And a more complete story:
"The full-scale, 14-by-14-foot straw house, complete with gravel 
foundation and clay plaster walls, the way she builds them in Pakistan, 
was subjected to 200 percent more acceleration/shaking than was recorded 
at the 1994 Northridge, Calif. earthquake, the largest measured ground 
acceleration in the world. After a series of seven increasingly forceful 
tests, in the final powerful test the house shook and swayed violently, 
cracked at the seams and sent out a small cloud of dust and straw…and 
remained standing."

more at: http://newsroom.blogs.unr.edu/

Marcus