Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - An artificially reproduced tsunami is weakened by a prototype movable breakwater developed by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University during a test operation at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014. (Kyodo)

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