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...Francisco Bay area and interrupted the World Series in 1989, it was seen almost as a novelty. More than a few observers probably harrumphed that those fools got exactly what they deserved for building a city right over a fault line on a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean...
...Wozniak's opinion, Alaska could best protect itself from being reclaimed by placing a big sign in the Pacific Ocean that says, "This way to Alaska," followed by an arrow pointing in the direction of California. But if Russia does take over Alaska, Wozniak says he thinks Russia should refund the $7.2 million originally paid for the land, with interest, as well as agree to fund the construction of a water pipeline to California...
...1930s the Yugoslav astronomer Milutin Milankovitch had constructed a coherent theory. The ice ages, he argued, were triggered by changes in the shape of the earth's slightly oval orbit around the sun and in the planet's axis of rotation. Studies of the chemical composition of ocean-floor sediments, which depend on climate conditions when the material was laid down, more or less supported Milankovitch's predicted schedule of global glaciation...
...number of theories have been floated to explain these irregular, rapid variations. The leading one, advanced by Lamont-Doherty's Wallace Broecker and George Denton of the University of Maine, involves a kind of cyclic ocean current that has been likened to a conveyer belt. Broecker and Denton note that a stream of unusually salty (and thus especially dense) water flows underneath the Gulf Stream as it moves from the tropics to the North Atlantic. When this salty stream reaches the far north, it is forced to the surface as water above it is blown aside by the winds...
...scientists will have to track the locations of hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and tedious process. At first it was thought that the quake might have resulted from a previously unmapped extension of the Oak Ridge Fault, which angles past the city of Ventura and into the Pacific Ocean. But as researchers fanned out through the San Fernando Valley, other theories emerged, including the possibility that the fault was not connected to any known system. Observes geophysicist Mark Zoback of Stanford University: "Individually these faults are smaller than the San Andreas and give rise to earthquakes that are less frequent...