Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

Kyoto Univ. lab tests movable tsunami breakwater

KYOTO, Japan - A facility that artificially reproduces tsunami is shown to the press at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 16, 2014. The equipment was used for the day's test operation of a movable tsunami breakwater.

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