Word: richter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinking. And within hours--sometimes minutes--she would call back with a rich, lucid account pulled from her notebooks." This she did, Tumulty notes ruefully, while closing on a new house, turning 40 and coping with being five months pregnant with her second child (she and husband Paul Richter have a son, Nicholas...
...large earthquake rocked the resort-studded Pacific coast of Mexico, killing at least 51 people, flattening one big hotel and damaging hundreds of homes. The temblor, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, was felt as far as 330 miles away in Mexico City, where the 63-story headquarters of the state oil monopoly swayed sickeningly...
Buildings swayed and power lines were knocked out in Mexico City as a strong earthquake (7.3 on the Richter scale) rocked southern Mexico, nearly 10 years to the day after a deadly quake killed more than 6,000 people on Sept. 19, 1985. "This time the city was much better prepared," reports TIME's Elizabeth Love in Mexico City. "The ambulances were dispatched immediately, and the Red Cross and the police were well-coordinated. They seemed to have learned from the last quake." No deaths or major structural damage were reported from the temblor, which was centered 190 miles south...
...contain the emphasis usually accorded to them; in the context of historical performances, they appeared routine. But momentousness was, in general, not his goal. The defining trait of Ax's playing on Saturday was a striking immediacy. Rather than using time to create intense emotional drama, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his landmark 1960 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorg, Ax manifested an incessant urge to build in an efficient and almost austere manner...
Skyscrapers swayed in Tokyo early this morning during a powerful earthquake (5.6 on the Richter scale) centered 75 miles beneath the surface of Sagami Bay to the southwest of the city. The depth of the quake helped to mitigate its force. While the bullet trains lost power for about an hour, and some homes sustained minor structural damage, no injuries were reported...