New type of earthquake recorder being adjusted by Wilfred Iwan, a post-graduate engineering student at the California Institute of Technology. The instrument is bolted to the basement floor of a building on the Caltech campus and is one of fifty being installed in the Los Angeles area to measure ground shaking during earthquakes. Photo dated: July 23, 1960.
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