Purdue will connect 14 bNEES/b research equipment sites, which includes Austin, and the earthquake engineering community through groundbreaking cyberinfrastructure, education and outreach efforts. The center is expected to begin operations ... It's sort of like Facebook for scientists, but instead of posting bvacation/b photos we're posting research results." In the past decade, 124 major earthquakes have occurred throughout the world, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ...