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...network of automated sensing stations equipped with magnetometers, tiltmeters and seismographs in California's Bear Valley. They are also beginning to make measurements of radon in wells and electrical resistance in rock. Some of the data are already being fed into the USGS's central station at Menlo Park. But analysis is still being delayed by lack of adequate computer facilities...
Could it happen? "The probability is high," says Seismologist Robert Wallace, chief of earthquake research for the U.S. Geological Survey at nearby Menlo Park. "The best estimate of the long-range rate of occurrence of great earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault is about one every 100 years, so a significant probability exists of another within the next 30 years." Another specialist, Berkeley's Karl V. Steinbrugge, perhaps the country's leading expert on designing quake-resistant buildings, is even more blunt. Says he: "Thousands of lives snuffed out in 30 seconds is going to blow the roof...
...warning did nothing to settle the doctors' complaints. New York's major malpractice insurer, the Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif., which has raised its premiums by a total of 200% in the past year, is leaving the state entirely on July 1. Doctors feel that the state legislature, which has already enacted a bill offering a doctor-owned alternative (TIME, June 9), must do more to protect them against the rising risk of being wiped out by malpractice suits. To ensure that it does, a number of doctors said last week that they were willing...
...California walkout was the most drastic response yet to the steep rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed...
Linus Pauling Institute of Science & Medicine, Menlo Park, Calif...