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Fear in D Minor. Many movie composers-Schifrin, Joe Raposo, Billy Goldenberg and Jerry Goldsmith, for example-have classical music backgrounds. Goldsmith majored in music at U.S.C.; Goldenberg studied piano with his father. Schifrin's father was concertmaster of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. Raposo studied in Paris with...
Both effects seemed related to a phenomenon called dilatancy-the opening of a myriad of tiny, often microscopic cracks in rock subjected to great pressure. Brace even suggested at the time that the physical changes associated with dilatancy might provide warning of an impending earthquake, but neither he nor anyone...
With their new knowledge, U.S. and Russian scientists cautiously began making private predictions of impending earthquakes. In 1973, after he had studied data from seven portable seismographs at the Blue Mountain Lake encampment, Columbia University's Aggarwal excitedly telephoned Lynn Sykes back at the laboratory. All signs, said Aggarwal...
Other seismic monitoring grids in the U.S. include a 45-station network in the Los Angeles area, operated jointly by the USGS and Caltech; smaller networks in the New York region under the Lamont-Doherty scientists; and those in the Charleston, S.C., area, operated by the University of South Carolina...
Convinced that "earthquake prediction is a fact at the present time," and worried about the effect of such forecasts, particularly in U.S. cities, the National Academy of Sciences this week released a massive study entitled "Earthquake Prediction and Public Policy." Prepared by a panel of experts headed by U.C.L.A. Sociologist...