We will be closed Monday, February 27 through Friday, March 3 as we build new adventures! The shop will remain open Monday-Thursday 10am-5pm, and Friday 12pm-5pm. The attraction and shop will return to normal hours on Saturday, March 4. There are 12 great family attractions in LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Westchester. Click an attraction below for details, or switch to see the map... LEGO® Star Wars™ MINILAND Model Display LEGO® Master Builder Academy LEGO® Racers: Build & Test Coming Soon: LEGO® Ninjago City Adventure Go back to Log In We All Have A Jewish New York Story. We welcome and support immigrants of every ethnic and religious background. We’re launching a whole new way to get involved. Now more than ever, our community needs you. Give to UJA and help millions of people live better lives.A series of spaced gaps within the concrete façade allow the walls to bend without breakingMexico City's new tallest building, the Torre Reforma, posed a tricky design challenge for London engineering firm Arup, thanks to the city's predisposition to earthquakes.
The 246-metre-tall skyscraper's triangular structure has a tendency to twist when hit with seismic activity and wind. So Arup devised a new model for constructing concrete structures in risky locations. "The core provides resistance to earthquakes using reinforced concrete sheer walls, connected by smaller elements known as coupling beams which dissipate energy during a large earthquake," explains Tom Wilcock, an associate principal engineer at Arup's Advanced Technology and Research practice in New York.London engineering firm Arup designed the new buildingUsing historical earthquake data and information from statistical and physical earthquake models, Arup's structural engineers simulated representative earthquakes and their effects on the building's structure during the design process. Now, Wilcock says, the Torre Reforma can withstand the full range of earthquake activity predicted in the area for the next 2,500 years. Structural engineers simulated representative earthquakes during the design process
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Children 17 and younger must be accompanied and supervised by a paying adult. This venue is wheelchair accessible. Some attractions may have height restrictions. by Jonathan Safran Foer See All Formats& Editions The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch… God Loves Haiti: A Novel by Dimitry Elias Leger A Race to Splendor This Is Not Civilization by John J. Nance El último coyote (The Last… See All Formats& EditionsThe San Andreas Fault awakens, unleashing back-to-back jolts that leave a trail of misery from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The letters of the Hollywood sign topple. Tsunami waves swamp the Golden Gate Bridge.Hollywood's favorite geologic bad guy is back in "San Andreas" — a fantastical look at one of the world's real seismic threats. The San Andreas has long been considered one of the most dangerous earthquake faults because of its length. At nearly 800 miles long, it cuts through California like a scar and is responsible for some of the largest shakers in state history.
In the film, opening this Friday, a previously unknown fault near the Hoover Dam in Nevada ruptures and jiggles the San Andreas. Southern California is rocked by a powerful magnitude-9.1 quake followed by an even stronger magnitude-9.6 in Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough accompanied The Associated Press to an advance screening of the film. Despite the implausible plot, she said the San Andreas will indeed break again, and without warning."We are at some point going to face a big earthquake," she said.The San Andreas is notorious for producing big ones, but a magnitude-9 or larger is virtually impossible because the fault is not long or deep enough, Hough noted. The most powerful temblors in recorded history have struck along offshore subduction zones where one massive tectonic plate dives beneath another. The 1960 magnitude-9.5 quake off Chile is the current world record holder. The San Andreas has revealed its awesome power before. In 1906, a magnitude-7.8 reduced parts of San Francisco to fiery rubble.
Nearly five decades earlier, a similar-sized quake rattled the southern end of the fault.In 2008, the USGS led a team of 300 experts that wrote a script detailing what would happen if a magnitude-7.8 hit the southern San Andreas. They wanted to create a science-based crisis scenario that can be used for preparedness drills.The lesson: It doesn't take a magnitude-9 or greater to wreak havoc. Researchers calculated a magnitude-7.8 would cause 1,800 deaths and 50,000 injuries. puter models show the San Andreas is capable of producing a magnitude-8.3 quake, but anything larger is dubious.WILL THERE BE A WARNING?In the film, Lawrence Hayes, a fictional seismologist at Caltech (a real university), notices spikes in "magnetic pulses" that light up California like a Christmas tree, heralding a monster quake. Despite a century of research, earthquake prediction remains elusive. Scientists can't predict when a jolt is coming and are generally pessimistic about ever having that ability.Every warning sign scrutinized — animal behavior, weather patterns, electromagnetic signals, atmospheric observations, levels of radon gas in soil or groundwater — has failed."
We wish it were as simple as the movie portrays. Researchers have scoured every imaginable signal trying to find reliable precursors, but nothing has panned out," Hough said.The latest focus has been on creating early warning systems that give residents and businesses a few seconds heads up after a quake hits, but before strong shaking is felt.Japan has the most advanced seismic alert system in the world while the U.S. is currently testing a prototype.A TSUNAMI IN SAN FRANCISCO?Unlike the film, the San Andreas can't spawn tsunamis.Most tsunamis are triggered by underwater quakes, but they can also be caused by landslides, volcanoes and even meteor impacts.Giant tsunami waves are formed when the Earth's crust violently shifts, displacing huge amounts of seawater. The larger the magnitude, the more these waves can race across the ocean without losing energy.The San Andreas is strike-slip fault, in which opposing blocks of rocks slide past each other horizontally. A big San Andreas quake can spark fires and other mayhem, but it can't displace water and flood San Francisco.Hough said the movie got one aspect right: The tide suddenly ebbing out signals a tsunami is coming.
More than 80 — mostly small— tsunamis have been observed along California's coast in the past, triggered mainly by faraway quakes.WILL THE EAST COAST FEEL IT?In the movie, the scientist warned that shaking would be felt on the East Coast.Even the largest possible San Andreas quake won't rattle the East Coast (Sorry New York).While seismic waves from great quakes can make the Earth reverberate like a bell, the ringing can only be detected by sensitive instruments because it's so low.Historical accounts show shaking from the 1906 San Andreas quake was barely felt in western Nevada and southern Oregon, Hough said.DROP, COVER AND HOLD ON!When the ground starts to shake, the seismologist played by Paul Giamatti makes the ideal public service announcement: "Drop, cover and hold on."Since 2008, millions of people in California and elsewhere have participated in yearly disaster drills in which they practice diving under a table and learn other preparedness tips.If you're outdoors when the ground moves, experts recommend bracing against a wall, similar to what search-and-rescue helicopter pilot Ray Gaines, played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, told scared survivors in the movie."