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...Seattle tsunami? If a Cascadia quake were large enough, it could drive a wall of water toward Seattle and Vancouver. The Puget Basin has its own network of faults fully capable of generating large earthquakes and tsunamis...
MAJOR PROJECTS: Next year the 4,000-km west- east gas pipeline should begin delivering 5,000 cu m of gas annually from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta...
...from China's top four oil fields is in decline. By some estimates, the country's current proven reserves will be depleted in as little as 14 years. Meanwhile, it is not economically feasible to drill largely untapped petroleum pools believed to lie beneath western China's desolate Tarim Basin, even with prices at $50 a barrel...
...sail as well as I would have liked to.” ... The Schell Trophy regatta drew perhaps more live—if unwitting—spectators than any collegiate sailing or Harvard athletic event in history, as an estimated 400,000 fans lined the Lower Basin of the Charles River to watch the world champion Boston Red Sox parade through town in triumph. The Red Sox’s procession boarded Duckboats to cross the river, interrupting the regatta for an hour...
...event celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, and Harvard and Radcliffe crews were again in the mix against the world’s premier rowing competition. Heavy winds at the river’s basin forced officials to shorten the three-mile course to just over two miles long, but a change in scenery did nothing to deter the Harvard’s top Championship Four entry yesterday...