Kyoto Univ's tsunami breakwater model tested

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute conducts an operation test of a tsunami breakwater model at the Ujigawa Open Laboratory in Kyoto City on July 16, 2014, using an artificially reproduced tsunami.

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