Abstract

The 3,399 ft long, 41 ft wide fourth bore of California’s Caldecott Tunnel has been designed and built to be accessible to emergency vehicles no more than 72 hours after the next catastrophic earthquake strikes the region, and excavation for the tunnel was undertaken through highly variable rock formations consisting of weak, fractured, and folded sedimentary rock layers.

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