Word: caltech
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...Talk about bad luck!" says Caltech geologist Brian Wernicke, squinting through a telescopic eyepiece at an aerial photo of Landers, California, a small town in the middle of the Mojave desert. "Wham! Right through this house. Wham! Right through that house. The funny thing is, there aren't that many houses out here...
...fault experienced only one earthquake of magnitude 5.8 or higher.* Since then there have been seven, including the Landers quake, which weighed in at an impressive 7.5. Moreover, this surge in seismicity appears to be occurring on a worrisome schedule. Excavations of old lake-bed sediments by Caltech paleoseismologist Kerry Sieh in the mid-1980s indicate that large earthquakes have roared through this section of the San Andreas at not quite 300-year intervals. The last such quake took place circa 1680. "It's just a gut feeling," ventures Sieh, who is 41 years old, "but I think...
...California, an effective system could require thousands of sensors along various high-risk faults, linked by sophisticated systems for transmitting data. It would all have to run automatically by computer, says Hiroo Kanamori of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory: "There is no room for human uncertainty or hesitation." Toksoz believes a comprehensive system could be developed over a five-year period for $100 million. A 1991 report produced for the National Academy of Sciences recommended that the Federal Government build a prototype system, but so far, nothing has been implemented...
...some little pieces. Bill Cosby and his wife Camille donated $20 million to Atlanta's Spelman College, a private liberal arts school for black women; most of the money was allocated to the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center. In 1985 the W.M. Keck Foundation gave $70 million to Caltech, which now has a telescope called Keck I and, for $72 million more, will soon have Keck II. Publishing magnate Walter Annenberg has the University of Pennsylvania School for Communication named after him ($75 million), though what he got for his generous $50 million gift to the United Negro College...
Stone has taught physics at the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology since 1976, served aschair of the Division of Physics, Math andAstronomy and currently directs the CalTech jetPropulsion Laboratory...