Word: richter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said Zelmar Bolin, a senior citizen who has lived in Imperial Beach for 51 years, "is the only income I've got." Bilbray assuaged the gathering, saying Democrats were using scare tactics. He explained that his plan would only slow the growth of Social Security and Medicare benefits. Virginia Richter said she'd back Bilbray on Medicare, "but it should be one of the last avenues" to balance the budget. "If everything else is reduced, yes, we'd go along," she said. But first slash corporate subsidies and aid to Israel. Said Thelma Steffen: "I say take care of Americans...
...devastating earthquake struck Sakhalin Island in Russia's far east, killing perhaps as many as 2,000 of 3,000 people living in the tiny oil-drilling town of Neftegorsk. The violent quake, 7.5 on the Richter scale, flattened the shoddy Soviet-built apartment blocks; in a section of town, one of the few structures still standing was a statue of Lenin. Subfreezing nighttime temperatures complicated rescue efforts, and thick offshore ice kept a hospital ship from reaching Sakhalin...
Residents of the remote Far East Russian island of Sakhalin desperately sought to rescue their relatives and friends as Russian troops scrambled to dig out thousands of victims of one of the most catastrophic earthquakes in Russian history. The devastating temblor, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, hit at 1am on Sunday, leveling the town of Neftegorsk and burying most of the 3,500 residents in the wreckage of brick and concrete buildings. In Neftegorsk, cries of pain were heard amid the rubble, the whole area clouded by thick smoke from fires sparked by the quake. At least...
...powerful earthquake toppled buildings, killing at least 23 people and injuring hundreds more in Colombia. Preliminary estimates place the magnitude of the quake, which was centered about 175 miles west of Bogota, as between 6.2 and 6.5 on the Richter scale. The city of Pereira (population 700,000) was hardest hit. Officials cut electricity there to avoid fires from possible gas leaks or downed power lines...
...would have fared far better. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins. A vast feeling of insecurity rushed into the vacuum, accompanied by anger...