WVU Professor’s Patented System Could Make Cities More Resilient after Natural Disasters

Fear of the “Big One,” a magnitude 8.0 or greater earthquake, has been fodder for cinema and amusement park rides for decades, but the reality could be devastating for communities who are unprepared for that rare rupture or even weaker, but more common, lower-magnitude tremors. West Virginia University professor Hota GangaRao and Praveen Majjigapu, a…