The Mid-America Earthquake Center, a joint ERC among the University of Illinois and 6 partner universities, maintains and monitors a network of ground motion instrumentation in the New Madrid seismic zone, providing an invaluable stream of real data to researchers. The facilities of the 7 universities also include shake tables, reaction walls, centrifuges and mobile test facilities for geotechnical engineering. The existing facilities at the Mid-America Earthquake Center are available to those outside the Center when not in use. The estimated value of the existing infrastructure between the 7 universities is on the order of $35 million.