Word: richter
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CARACAS, Venezuela: A powerful earthquake ripped through northeastern Venezuela Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 162. The quake is considered Venezuela's worst in 30 years, registering 5.5 on the Richter scale. The earthquake hit at 3:25 p.m. Venezuela time, demolishing one building in Cumana (about 340 miles east of Caracas) where about 30 people remain trapped in the rubble. In Cariaco, about 30 miles east of Cumana, 26 students and teachers died after the town's school was demolished. Rescue workers were trying to free approximately 30 people buried in the debris...
...such as Ain't No Big Thing tend to drag. But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps. The title track is the headiest moment; when Hooker sings, "I'm gonna live for the future/ not the past," using that rumbling, Richter-scale voice to toss off decades of heartbreak, the listener is touched with a redemptive awe. Hooker is 79 years old now, and has all but stopped touring. "I'll go out once in a while," he says. "I've paid my dues." Paid in full. Just one spin...
...think that if the San Andreas Fault went to the trouble of having a perfectly good earthquake, the folks on the West Coast might at least notice. A new study reveals, however, that in 1992, what should have been a china-smashing 4.8 Richter-scale quake hit central California, and yet nobody felt a thing. The explanation for the odd shadow-quake was published last week in the journal Nature and may help improve science's understanding of earthquakes in general...
...timing isn't bad either. In summer even serious readers beg to have their disbelief suspended, and The Last Don obliges. It is a headlong entertainment, bubbling over with corruption, betrayals, assassinations, Richter-scale romance and, of course, family values. As in its famous predecessor, unquestioned loyalty, unexamined cash flow and expedient ways of dealing with competition are givens, but this story is set in the '80s--and the slick Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead...
...Biloxi, a once sleepy, now casino-bedecked resort, Grey preaches at the imposing, white-columned First Presbyterian Church. "I'm here to recruit fighters! He's your enlistment sergeant!" Grey announces, pointing to the Rev. James Richter. Richter has seen two recent suicides and several bankruptcies due to gambling. "A lot of roads have gotten paved," he says. "Personally, I'd rather have a few more potholes and a few more lives intact...