Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
Foundation grantees at Caltech pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Their findings explain how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low-story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.
Jean-Philippe Avouac and his colleagues have installed a network of GPS stations in Nepal that allows them to monitor the way Earth's crust moves during and in between earthquakes.
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California Institute of Technology
$13,000,000
60 months
Tectonics Observatory
Sep 2008
