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...woman trapped in a world she cannot accept. We sympathize, but can't help feeling she is responsible for her misfortunes. Marie stubbornly refuses to understand there is no easy solution to her predicament; the Soviet authorities will not permit her to return to France. Ultimately, the fault lies with Wargnier. He has created a character of heroic proportions, a woman who endures unimaginable hardships, years of exile in a forced labor camp, to escape Soviet Russia. In the process, he has deprived his protagonist of a more human face...
...when bolted together, the plates would continue to build up stress, and that stress would have to be relieved somewhere. A much better approach would be to relieve the stress gradually--with a lot of small quakes--rather than let it accumulate. If man-made quakes could move the fault just 1.67 in. a year, the Big One on the northern San Andreas could be averted...
...they detonated underground blasts. But the real breakthrough came when the U.S. Army began pumping liquid wastes into the ground near Denver at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal and discovered that the pumping was setting off tiny artificial quakes. Scientists studying the phenomenon found that the fluids were lubricating the fault boundaries, allowing them to slip past each other...
This work stimulated a lot of excitement among geologists. They speculated that stress along the San Andreas could be relieved by pumping water deep into the fault, allowing the Pacific and North American plates to squish by each other gradually, without lurching. The numbers, however, were not on their side. Lubricating the entire fault would require enormous amounts of drilling, flooding and pumping. And since no one knew where the quake might originate, the job would have to be done along a broad stretch of the fault line. They needed a focal point...
...early as next year. As part of project EarthScope, quake researchers hope to create a geological "microscope" by drilling a hole beside the San Andreas at one of its most active regions, turning their drill 45[degrees] at 1 1/2 miles deep, and then boring right through the fault. This would give scientists their first direct access to an earthquake-initiation site, where they could set up monitors to observe changes in temperature, fluid pressure, gas composition and all the other vital signs of geological activity...