Test facility simulates how tsunami flows over levee

Test facility simulates how tsunami flows over levee

ABIKO, Japan - An experimental facility in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, shown to the press by the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry on April 22, 2014, simulates how tsunami flow over a coastal levee.

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