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Photos: CHPAC President's Club Event • May 22, 2008 • Riverwalk Golf Course

California State Senator
Mark Wyland (left)
and Michael Essrig

Mike Murphy, President & CEO, Sharp Hospitals (at right) with Michael Essrig and Judith Yates, COO of Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties (at left)

Senator Mark Wyland addresses the CHPAC President's Club gathering

Michael Essrig speaking about SB 1953 at CHPAC Presidents Club Event

Video Clips
Photos: UC Berkeley Earthquake Lab

2006: (.wmv & .wav files)

NBC's Dateline • May 21, 2006
Shorter version (3.5 mins., 6.1MB .wmv file)
Long version (15 min., 49.4MB .wmv file;
   NOT suitable for dial-up connection)

KTLA News Special: "When Disaster Strikes" (5 mins.; 7.4MB .wmv file)

KRON4 News
(1.7MB .wmv file)

Eyewitness News 5 • 6pm
(4.2MB .wmv file)

ABC 7 News • 6pm
(1.9MB .wmv file)

NBC 11 News 032206
(7.1MB .wmv file)

NBC 11 News • 5pm
(5.9MB .wmv file)

Radio

Evening Drive News
(1.9MB .wav file)



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Safe-T-Proof Fastening System
Put to Test in Berkeley Earthquake Lab

The furnished house shown at right is located inside the Earthquake Lab at UC Berkeley and was built for NBC's "Dateline" TV show. The show demostrates how a structure built using today's building codes can withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Inside, it shows how furniture and equipment fastened using the Safe-T-Proof Fastening System holds up in an 8.0 quake. The photos below show furniture after the 8.0. Everything we fastened held. Other pictures show what happened after we disengaged the furniture from the Safe-T-Proof Fastening System and another simulated 8.0 quake was generated.

This "Dateline" special featuring the lab test on our fastening system aired on Sunday,  May 21, 2006 @ 7pm PST.

The photos below are from the day of the video documented test, including before and after photos

Cabinet 1: Cabinet and cabinet doors
with Sate-T-Proof Fastening System

Cabinet 1: without Safe-T-Proof
Fastening System

Blue-Top Cabinet: fastened

BlueTop Cabinet: fastening disengaged

Shelf and monitor fastened

Adjacent shelf also fastened

Fastening for both shelves disengaged resulting in both falling onto the chair and desk area, with the monitor coming off the shelf

Michael Essrig with Hoda Kotb, the NBC Dateline correspondent at the UC Berkeley Earthquake Lab

Quake Cottage III from the outside

Inside Quake Cottage III

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