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...original hyperactivity -- and some panic -- has been followed by delayed shock and a period of numbness, and now, more than a month later, by an abiding anxiety. Few doubt that Los Angeles has been taking it harder than San Francisco's Bay Area did after the Loma Prieta quake of 1989, which was even greater in intensity -- 7.1 -- and caused 61 deaths...
When the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San 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...
...springs. Two scientists, now at Washington's Carnegie Institution, analyzed the timing of eruptions from 1973 to 1991. They found that the schedule was disrupted one to three days before each of the three biggest earthquakes of the period in the region. Just before the devastating Loma Prieta quake that hit the San Francisco area during the 1989 World Series, for example, the time between eruptions jumped from 90 to 150 minutes. Because the quakes occurred up to 250 km (155 miles) from the geyser, the data are not very helpful in warning the public, but they do support...
...constantly under guard. The traffickers, in turn, have proved endlessly inventive. On May 17, Customs agents discovered a 250-ft.-long, 5-ft.-wide concrete-and-steel reinforced tunnel that ran 35 ft. under the border, between a construction-supply warehouse in Douglas, Ariz., and a house in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Agents figure virtually all of Arizona's cocaine supply moved for a time via the passage...
...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...