In comments published in an opinion column in the daily newspaper Izvestia, the director, Mikhail Piotrovski, said that when Hermitage art travels for exhibitions, "we do not ship any of our paintings by airplane" to avoid potentially damaging vibrations, Agence France-Presse reported.

After service was restored, trains were directed to limit their speeds to 5 miles an hour under the site for the rest of the day to avoid excessive vibrations.

Structural separation between the tram and the hospital is necessary to avoid vibrations from tram machinery interfering with delicate microsurgery performed in the hospital.

Extreme care has been used during the demolition to avoid vibrations that might further damage the old 11th Street Bridge.

Officials of the Metropolitan Transit Authority diverted subway service on the D and the F lines for about one hour, starting at 1:15 A.M., to avoid vibrations that could have interfered with efforts to clear unstable debris at the fire scene.

Mathematical models make it possible to simulate machining vibration quite accurately, but in practice it is always difficult to avoid vibrations and there are basic rules for the machinist:

The people on Canna III were anxious to avoid vibrations because they were afraid of drowning.

Stephen Gray, senior associate of the APP Partnership, the firm of architects behind the Cornmill, said: 'We had to avoid vibrations which would turn the beer cloudy potentially the biggest disaster that could befall the town.

It was necessary to design the buildings to avoid vibrations from the trains below.

To sound-insulate the tunnel and avoid vibrations spreading to nearby housing, the entire tunnel was covered in a layer of rock wool.