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...Eurasian man, who writes them inscrutable mash notes. Also spying on them, flickeringly, is a peculiar fellow with a white bulldog. While presenting these enigmatic events, Hannah's ordinarily vivid prose seems flattened toward objectivity. Scenery is telescoped: "Aero-scan of birds, all kinds of seabirds, sea, Puget Sound with boat life, wharfs, seals, howling noisy seabirds again, here and there a helicopter." Background music is summoned: "Beethoven comes on with a power symphony and we hear grand strains of German pomposity...
...Seattle tsunami? If a Cascadia quake were large enough, it could drive a wall of water toward Seattle and Vancouver. The Puget Basin has its own network of faults fully capable of generating large earthquakes and tsunamis...
...which can be interpreted as good news or bad, given a geological record showing that the time between Cascadian tsunamis ranges from 200 to 1,000 years. Canadian geophysicists are still puzzling over a series of rhythmic tremors they identified a couple of years ago beneath the floor of Puget Sound. They don't know what caused them, but they think the tremors may be associated with rising stress along the fault. A bit of subterranean rustling doesn't mean that a great earthquake is imminent, of course, but the tsunami warning signs on local beaches remind us that those...
...irregular stack in a glass skin held within a latticework of steel. That lattice functions as an exterior structural support, reducing the need for interior trusses and columns, which in turn makes possible wide sweeps of free space inside, including an upper-level reading room with views onto Puget Sound...
MARS EXPLORATION SOC 202 University of Puget Sound The Red Planet's closest encounter with Earth in 60,000 years--on Aug. 27--is the reference point for this survey of everything Martian, from science to film...