Wired Science heads to the Earthquake Engineering Research Center to check out new and fascinating ways of testing seismic stability in buildings, houses, and other structures, aiming at protecting the public and its property from the destructive effects of earthquakes.

An earthquake is really terrible and a bearer of the death and destruction but thanks to advancement in engineering research, grave damage can be contained.
It is true that even moderate shock can bring about colossal devestation not speak of major earthquake, Modern earthquake engineering research came up with some great mechanism that can control destruction to a certain extent.