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...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...
...Tigers' bid for another national crown suffered its first jolt in the opening match when Bill Kaplan devastated his opponent, 3-1. Kaplan broke the ice by giving Princeton its first loss of the season but the next contest was even more surprising. Playing in the second spot, freshman John Havens beat the Tiger Captain, Arif Sarfraz, by the score of 3-1. Sarfraz was undefeated in the last two years...
...probably responsible for a 1927 quake estimated at 7.25 on the Richter scale. PG&E experts dispute that conclusion, insisting that a more distant fault caused the quake. If they are right-a crucial if-the plant is designed with a sufficient margin of safety to survive any probable jolt in the area...
...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...
Died. William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...