Word: richter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Losses. With such scenes of shock and terror began what could prove to be the world's worst earthquake since 1556, when a massive tremor killed more than 800,000 people in China's Shensi province. Last week the first and worst tremor reached 8.2 on the Richter scale, the most powerful recorded anywhere since 1964, when a quake registering 8.4 hit Alaska. The first tremor was followed 16 hours later by a second shock, which measured 7.9. The two quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions...
...different. Harold Shaw, the new man at Hurok Concerts, is regarded as a sound businessman. His abilities as a starmaker in the Hurok tradition are less well known. Despite the recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things wrong...
...Tagliamento River Valley, in the Dolomite foothills northeast of Venice, an Italian resort area and scene of bitter World War I battles. There 20 villages were badly battered by a light shock, followed by a major quake that lasted 55 seconds and measured a severe 6.9 on the Richter Scale; eleven more lesser tremors followed over a three-hour period. More than 700 people were killed under falling rubble before the shocks subsided...
...literally thousands of geological faults, California has already had its share of earthquakes. But, warns a California Institute of Technology geophysicist, the state may soon be in for another. James Whitcomb, 35, said last week measurements suggest that an earthquake ranging in magnitude from 5.5 to 6.5 on the Richter scale could occur within the next year in an area 87 miles in diameter that covers part of Los Angeles and the San Fernando and Antelope valleys. It includes the portion of the San Fernando where a major upheaval killed 58 people in 1971 and part of the area being...
With Rubinstein, Horowitz and Richter still around, this is not exactly a poor age for the piano. But no need to fear the historians' old canard about each epoch of artistic plenty being followed by drought. The best of today's pianists are already being pressed by some younger challengers, among them Vladimir Ashkenazy, 38, the Russian-born star who now lives in Iceland, and Italy's Maurizio Pollini, 34. They, in turn, have to look over their shoulders at even younger contenders...