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title: Making Artificial Earthquakes with a Four-Tonne Steel Ball — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/making-artificial-earthquakes-with-a-four-tonne-steel-ball/
date: 2018-02-12
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# Making Artificial Earthquakes with a Four-Tonne Steel Ball

In Göttingen, Germany, there’s a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower — and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny, artificial earthquakes: here’s why.