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Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller’s first cinematic love-baby, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is far from smooth-skinned and gurgling—beneath the stunning surface is a disturbing whirl of chaos and sorrow...
...Gunung Sitoli, Nias' largest town. Nasima was in bed when her house started to shake. She woke her husband, grabbed their two young children, and tried to make it down three flights of stairs. Floors and walls collapsed, the lights went off, and the family found itself trapped beneath the rubble. Relatives from a nearby town spent eight desperate hours digging them out with their hands. "It was a miracle we all survived," says Nasima. Many people didn't: the official death count in the area reached 500 last week, and as soldiers and international relief organizations moved...
...recognize the name Paju, chances are that it conjures up visions of soldiers and barbed wire. As the South Korean city closest to the Demilitarized Zone that divides the South from communist North Korea, Paju has long lived beneath a cloud of military tension. Now, a nearby cultural venture known as Heyri Art Valley (heyri.net) is trying to change that image by establishing the area as a mecca of arts tourism...
...increasing it in others. As Professor John McCloskey and his team at the University of Ulster showed in a recent paper in Nature, the Dec. 26 quake intensified the stress on two nearby faults that are close to the epicenter of the March 28 temblor: one running directly beneath the city of Banda Aceh and one running beneath the Sunda Trench, a deep seam in the ocean floor. That additional stress may have precipitated last week's quake...
...these two earthquakes finally relieved the region's tectonic stress? A: Don't bet on it. The area off the coast of Sumatra is a subduction zone, a highly unstable region where the India Plate, the Australia Plate, the Sunda Plate and the Burma Micro-Plate collide and dive beneath one another. Earthquakes tend to occur in clusters in subduction zones, and McCloskey says his initial findings indicate that the latest quake has accentuated the stress along the Sunda Trench fault for another 300 km south. The result is like the steady growth of a crack in a car windshield...