July 28, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Teresa Hendrix
(805) 756-7266
Cal Poly Professor Featured on KCET Aug. 5
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Professor Abe Lynn, head of the Architectural
Engineering Department at Cal Poly’s College of Architecture and
Environmental Design, will be featured on a KCET-TV
special on
earthquakes airing at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5.
The Los Angeles Public Broadcasting Station interviewed Lynn as part
of
its one-hour special titled, “Getting Ready for the Big One.”
Lynn’s
interview covered what to do to make homes and other structures safer
in
earthquake country.
Lynn is the head of a team of scientists convened by the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute in Oakland. The team was dispatched to
study the after-effects and damage resulting from the December 2003 San
Simeon earthquake. The quake caused an estimated $250 million in damage
and took two lives.
He initially presented findings, along with others in the 25-member
team, during a meeting at the California Institute of Technology in
February.
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
receives federal
funding from the National Science Foundation to sponsor teams to conduct
immediate damage reconnaissance in the wake of earthquakes and to get
findings out to government agencies, scientists and the public as
quickly as possible, Lynn explained.
The San Simeon quake study was Lynn’s second; he also participated
in
the EERI study of the Northridge earthquake in 1994.
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