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Engineering lessons from Earthquakes

Engineers will visit Taiwan to study the aftermath of this week's earthquake

After this week's 7.6 earthquake in Taiwan, the Earthquake Engineering Field Study Investigation Team (EEFIT) will visit to study the effects in order to design more quake-resistant buildings. The meteorological cousin of El Ni帽o is raising wind and waves in the Indian Ocean. The sound of a 9,000-year-old Chinese flute, the oldest playable instrument found. The World Food Prize this year goes to Dr Walter Plowright for a vaccine for against Rinderpest or cattle plague.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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