Word: dieterich
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Experts are unnervingly in agreement that Los Angeles is overdue for a catastrophic shaking. "We feel there is a 60% probability for an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 or larger sometime in the next 30 years," says James H. Dieterich, a geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey. Last year the survey reported that the Los Angeles area overlies three fault segments, any of which is capable of producing an enormous quake. Since 1857, when a monster measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale strewed destruction from the Cholame Valley in central California to the Cajon Pass near San Bernardino...
...Department of Defense has tested nearly 4 million military personnel and found a stable .15% rate of infection. About .2% of the 8.8 million blood donors screened each year by the American Red Cross are infected. "AIDS is making some encroachments into the heterosexual community," says Dr. Douglas Dieterich of New York University Medical Center. "But it is grossly exaggerated to claim that it is running rampant...