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...nearly 4 a.m. on a cold, moonless night, when people across much of Mexico were jolted from sleep by the first tremors of an earthquake. In Mexico City, where a quake in 1957 had killed more than 50 people, hundreds poured into the streets in abject terror. When the earth stopped moving, 120 agonizing seconds after the initial jolt, Mexico had experienced the longest earthquake in its recorded history...
Anderson rages in his films at the state of modern humanity, deadened by conformity and isolated in a world gone ludicrously amuck. His job, he seems to feel, is to jolt his viewers awake the same way he did the starlet: with a sound moral thwacking. "The artist must always aim beyond the limits of tolerance," he once wrote. "His duty is to be a monster...
Born Losers. Sometimes this clutter gets an enlivening jolt from the real world. For Benson this occurs when President Nixon visits China-when "The Foreign Devil re-enters the Forbidden City. After 72 years." In 1900, the year of the Boxer Rebellion, the foreign devils included everyone from Europe's great powers, the U.S. and Japan, all looking for their piece of the enormous fortune cookie. It is the Boxers, those Chinese Robin Hoods who thought their magic would protect them from Western bullets, who most excite Benson's imagination. By creating Norris Blake, a reporter for Joseph...
...waves, they arrive at seismic listening posts ahead of the S waves. While investigating the small tremors that often occur in the Garm region south of the Central Asian city of Tashkent, Russian seismologists were surprised to discover that in the days or weeks before a serious jolt, the relative velocities of the two types of waves changed. The interval between arrival times decreased significantly. Then, just before a big quake, the velocity relationship reverted to normal...
...significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity of the effect-which changes the relative velocity of the waves by as much as 13% -was directly proportional to the magnitude of the eventual jolt...