Test facility simulates how tsunami travels

Test facility simulates how tsunami travels

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

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