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...Kerrey candor dates back to childhood. But it first registered strongly on Washington's political Richter scale when he defended the right to burn the flag, while George Bush, also a war hero, was leading a posse of television camera crews to the Iwo Jima Memorial in Virginia, where he grandly condemned such acts. More recently, Kerrey has questioned the Persian Gulf deployment and flatly opposed a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Even before he first ran for office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans...
...same gold-painted sphere that was knocked wildly askew on Oct. 17, 1989, by the strongest earthquake to strike the city since 1906. This week the American flag will be hoisted there once again, to mark the anniversary of last year's temblor, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 63 people, injured 3,757 others and caused at least $6 billion in damage...
...some luxury hotels and many restaurants report that the tourist business has not yet fully recovered. "The fear factor is gone," proclaims Tapan Munroe, chief economist for Pacific Gas & Electric. Not everyone agrees. In the past year more than 7,000 aftershocks, ranging up to 5.4 on the Richter scale, have been recorded on the northern segment of the San Andreas fault, where the quake struck. Last April, on the 84th anniversary of the Great Quake of 1906, which killed an estimated 2,500 people, a series of nine temblors occurred near the the town of Watsonville, which was severely...
Today the fault at New Madrid remains active, regularly generating small, unnoticeable earthquakes and, from time to time, palpable jolts. Such quakes usually do not stir more than passing interest. But last week residents of southeastern Missouri snapped to attention when a moderate earthquake, rated 4.6 on the Richter scale, rattled windows, spilled coffee and broke ceramic figurines. Reason: the earthquake followed a much publicized prediction that the fault is likely to produce a major shock come Dec. 3, and many people feared last week's tremor could be a precursor. The prediction, which has made its way into several...
...Memphis State University. Fortunately, when the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 occurred, the New Madrid region was too sparsely populated to suffer significant damage or injuries. A modern-day replay, however, would make the quake that shook San Francisco last year seem tame. That tremor measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. In contrast, the big quakes that rumbled forth from New Madrid may have exceeded 8.0, or about 10 times that strong...