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...Geological Survey's lab at Menlo Park, a fired-up corps of young scientists is "bugging" central California's creaking faults with ultrasensitive new instruments. The lab has already set up more than 100 seismic stations, one-eighth of the world's total, to detect ever smaller earth tremors...
...This enables us to use small earthquakes to paint in the boundaries of the blocks of the earth that are moving," says Menlo Park's Jack Healy. Scientists are also studying the minute tilting of the ground that may precede quakes and the slow fault "creep" of those parts of the San Andreas that are moving freely. They are measuring the minute warping of rock along "locked" areas, changes that reflect the gigantic, subterranean forces urging that part of California west of the fault to move toward Alaska. In addition, the electrical and magnetic properties of rocks have been...
Before putting earthquake controls into practice, seismologists are striving to perfect their predicting techniques. They are making progress. In June, Menlo Park scientists correctly assured worried county officials that a "swarm" of hundreds of small tremors near San Francisco would not threaten the city. The Japanese have made successful forecasts days and weeks in advance. One measure of their accuracy was the unhappiness caused among members of the hotel and sightseeing industries at Matsushiro in 1967, when seismologists accurately predicted that a small swarm would be followed by a series of larger tremors. Such predictions, the merchants complained, were...
...Japanese are not the only ones working on such a train. In a similar design proposed by Stanford Research Institute at Menlo Park, Calif., the mag-net:c train rides on a concrete pathway about twelve feet wide. Ordinary rails have been replaced by two L-shaped aluminum guide strips (see diagram). As the train's speed increases, the magnets on the underside of the cars act like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles...
Died. Dr. Abraham Maslow, 62, eminent psychologist and author noted for his pioneering work on humanistic psychology; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif. Maslow's revolutionary theories, published in such books as Motivation and Personality and Psychology of Science, pointed the way toward encounter-group psychotherapy...