The devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday have caused the deaths of over 23,000 people and the destruction of over 5,600 buildings and left the region a disaster area, but a company based out of Vallejo may have saved more lives from being lost.
Earthquake Protection Systems, housed in a 12-acre factory on Mare Island, builds gigantic "friction pendulum bearings" called seismic isolators, which essentially place huge structures like buildings, bridges and refineries on shifting plates that absorb the shock of large quakes.
This has been Zayas' life goal: Not only to keep buildings standing during large quakes, but to keep them up and running, especially places like hospitals. "We now have the proof that our engineering theories actually work in practice," said Zayas. Zayas is an open and affable person that readily gives tours of his massive factory tucked at the far end of Mare Island, which holds an impressive quake simulator that is used to test his products. EPS is housed in a former Navy structure.
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