Word: kamchatka
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...attempt both to record and to foretell Baker's behavior, geologists are trying to emulate the Russians, who recently correctly predicted a volcanic eruption on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka. The scientists have installed seismographs on the mountain's flanks to detect the tremors that are believed to precede an eruption and set up instruments to measure the flow and the temperatures of gases escaping from the fumaroles. They are also using sensitive tiltmeters to determine if the mountain is swelling, a phenomenon that could presage an eruption...
...example, a 4.7 earthquake rocked lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city's historic temples. Within the past several weeks, strong earthquakes struck Oroville, Calif., Mindanao in the Philippines, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia and the southwest Pacific island of Bougainville...
...influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle, had a more scientific explanation. He contended that the earth's rumblings were...
...Russian missile advances had been expected since the latest shots followed a series of shorter-range tests of two other new missiles on a range ending on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Siberia last spring and summer. Nonetheless, one of their chief consequences will be to focus this year's debate in Congress over the defense budget on the question: Is the U.S. falling behind the Soviet Union militarily? Arsenals of experts are likely to be rolled out to argue both sides of the highly complex question. But there is no dispute about the fact that while...
...romantic, one of the "last young men in America," in middle age, "still looking for himself." And his story is a self parody of a hopelessly romantic Love Story peopled from Burke's Peerage. The 'Making' of Ashenden is actually a make-out: he's raped by a Russian Kamchatka Bear at a jungle-like estate in England. This experience gives him a renewed existential meaning, as he proclaims, "I'm kinky for bears." The bizarre tone of Elkin's humor, and complicated narrative twists, which often expect the reader to believe first-person accounts of thoroughly untrustworthy characters...