Word: prieta
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...seaside resort city of Santa Cruz, only nine miles from the quake's epicenter deep under a hill called Loma Prieta, took a heavy hit. Much of a six-block stretch along Front Street and Pacific Avenue was reduced to rubble. A year later, 50-year-old masonry storefronts are still propped up with braces, but there are no stores behind them. At the Pacific Garden Mall, where three people died, only a handful of stores have reopened in temporary tentlike structures. The landmark St. George Hotel appears to be damaged beyond repair. "The impact here has been terrible," says...
...Loma Prieta quake, says geophysicist Peter Ward of the U.S. Geological Survey, "might be viewed as a warning shot. We may be headed into a period of much higher seismic activity." Last July the USGS issued a "probabilities report" estimating a 1-in-3 chance that another quake equal in strength to Loma Prieta could strike the Bay Area. At a conference of 1,000 earthquake experts who are convening this week to mark the anniversary, participants will be reminded that a 7.5 quake is expected at some indeterminate future date along the Hayward fault, which runs through a more...
...enforcement officers often speak of a narcotics pipeline across the American border, but little did they know how much truth there was in the metaphor. Last week astonished U.S. Customs agents unearthed an elaborate tunnel that began in the Mexican town of Agua Prieta and emerged 200 ft. away in Douglas, Ariz. Five ft. high and 4 ft. wide, the subterranean pathway had electric lighting, water pumps and storage compartments for drug caches. "It was just an exceptionally professionally engineered tunnel," said a Customs official. Agents first began to suspect the tunnel's existence last February, when a drug shipment...