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Robert F. Yerkes

Publications and source records attributed to Robert F. Yerkes.

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The Los Angeles Dam Story

In 1971, the near-failure of a dam during a magnitude 6.7 earthquake forced 80,000 people to evacuate their residences. In 1994, the replacement dam survived an almost identical earthquake with little damage. Underlying this progress in designing critical structures are years of research on the powerful shaking during large earthquakes.

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