I may be wrong, but I remember the Ripley's Believe it or not Museum
(LOL!!!) in San Francisco has a room like this.  OK... stop laughing!!! It's
actually pretty cool and might give you some good ideas.  :)  Lorah

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> Subject:      Re: Anyone done a small earthquake exhibit?
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> I can't remember where this was, or when I read about it, but there was an
> earthquake exhibit that included a room mounted on springs, that shook
> from
> time to time.
>
> A supply of replaceable, cheap crockery to fall from shelves might be fun.
>
> I have been through only one very small earthquake. The noise was
> terrifying.
> Sub-woofers may be the way to go--speakers that emit sub-sonic vibrations.
> Rock bands use them. You don't hear them, but feel them in your chest.
>
> An excellent description of an earthquake's primal terror may be read in
> Mary
> Renault's The Bull from the Sea, if anyone reads that anymore. Spoken
> literary excerpts might be an effective ingredient in an earthquake
> exhibit.
>
> David Formanek
>
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