Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plate have slid as much as 30 ft. Some day, seismologists warn, the stalled sections are going to have to catch up with the main bodies of the plates. Strains are inexorably building up in the crustal rock. When-as it must -the rock finally fractures, the plates will jolt ahead, causing a major earthquake. In fact, the last significant plate movement in the Palmdale vicinity occurred in 1857, when a huge earthquake jolted the then sparsely populated area...
...Chinese, for example, managed to predict the Manchurian quake with such extraordinary precision that the big jolt came only a few hours after their warning. As a result, says MIT Geologist Frank Press, more than a million people were evacuated from their vulnerable homes and tens of thousands of lives were saved...
...hopes. Tilden collects over 250,000 popular votes more than his Republican opponent, Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, but outright frauds, payoffs and congressional deals make Hayes the victor by one electoral vote. Even the profoundly cynical Schuyler is shocked by the brazenness of the theft. A further jolt awaits him. His daughter catches a millionaire husband-and there is evidence that she may have abetted his first wife's death to do it. "Why write any of this?" a distraught Schuyler asks near the end. "Answer: habit. To turn life to words is to make life yours...
...slow, perhaps no more than 1½ in. a year. But the strains created as these two huge masses slide against each other are enormous. For at least 200 years, there has been no major movement where the plates meet in Guatemala. Two weeks ago, with a titanic jolt, the Americas Plate slipped to the left, moving as much as 3 ft. westward along a rupture of more than 90 miles...
...this measure, a jolt with a magnitude of 2 at its epicenter is barely perceptible; one that registers 5 may cause minor damage. The worst recorded quake in the U.S. (1964 in Alaska...