Word: faults
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...Japan, at least, scientists may also have been looking and listening in the wrong places. Japanese seismologists understandably have positioned underground sensors to pick up rumblings along the notorious faults that run under the Pacific off Japan; they are believed to be the source of the devastating 1923 temblor that killed 143,000 people in Tokyo and Yokohama. American scientists have kept a close watch on the San Andreas fault that runs for 650 miles through California from north of San Francisco nearly to the Mexican border. But the Kobe and Northridge quakes occurred not along these major inter-plate...
...intervals between eruptions along the big faults are measured in centuries, whereas the secondary cracks ``may only slip in a big earthquake every 1,000 to 5,000 years,'' notes seismologist Wayne Thatcher of the U.S. Geological Survey. ``Yet there are so damn many of them that they pose a seismic hazard equivalent to the Big One we've all been so focused on.'' Seismologists also point out that quakes could endanger places where citizens have rarely thought about them: Seattle, for instance, which sits close to a fault under the Pacific that seismologists now conclude has triggered major quakes...
...increasing opportunity but requiring responsibility," offered Sen. John Breaux (D-La.). Said conservative Democratic Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi: "He opposed every moderate effort in the last Congress. I can only wonder now if he actually believes in his own promises, or will he reverse course yet again?" Whose fault was the 100-minute pastiche? Apparently, Clinton winged it.TIME White House correspondent James Carneynotes that Chief of Staff Leon Panetta promised just hours before Clinton's delivery that the speech would run just 40 minutes...
...number of major differences have emerged recently between Russia and the U.S. So whose fault is it that the specter of cold war might be coming back? We believe the political and military leadership is to blame for pursuing a line of total camaraderie with the U.S. A strong America promised billions of dollars in support, always dictating its own conditions. They were sometimes humiliating, but Yeltsin, Foreign Minster Andrei Kozyrzev, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin accepted them without a murmur. Now Yeltsin realizes he has given away too much, too fast. He knows patriotism and a healthy nationalism will...
...ever said governing would be easy. Two weeks into the new Congress, fissures began to appear in the once seemingly rock-solid Republican majority in the House as members started squabbling over just how limiting term limits should be. Fault lines also became apparent regarding the proposed balanced- budget amendment, with moderate Republicans (joined by some Democrats) objecting to a provision that would mandate a three-fifths majority of both houses to approve tax increases. Of course, Republicans' differences weren't so great that they couldn't deflect Democratic demands that a balanced-budget amendment include a detailed plan laying...