Word: lindh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less bucolic places raises rockier questions. Should officials curtail construction and thus discourage new business? What if this kills a community's economy and the quake never comes? The USGS insists that these are decisions for state and local authorities. Besides, the science is still shaky. Says Geophysicist Allan Lindh: "Studying great quakes 150 years apart is like trying to pick horse races from watching one furlong and not even knowing which furlong you're watching." Betting a community's future on such evidence could be quite a gamble--one almost as big as ignoring the evidence...
...Stewart Lindh San Francisco...