Due to intense vibrations caused by Beijing’s subway, precision instruments worth 400 million yuan ($63 million) at China’s prestigious Peking University have begun to malfunction.
According to a April 25 report in the state-run newspaper China Youth Daily, Peking University has precision instruments—used in many of its research departments—worth a total of 1.1 billion yuan ($17o million); nearly one-third of them have been affected by tremors produced by passing Line 4 trains of the nearby Beijing subway, just 100 meters (328 feet) away.
