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California's big number was 6.9. But either a Richter scale is too abstract, or the numbers it produces aren't satisfyingly meaty enough. Right from the beginning, Ted Koppel was begging for some casualty counts that he could spread around...
...significance of the new findings was underscored by the haste with which they were revealed. The Stanford team, led by Burton Richter (a 1976 Nobel laureate), went public first, issuing a press release only one day before a European symposium at which CERN's findings were to have been presented. That led to charges of bad sportsmanship from some of the CERN team, led by Carlo Rubbia (1984 Nobel), whose results are said to be more accurate and even more definitive...
...Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...moderate aftershock registered 3.9 on the Richter scale at 1:13 a.m. yesterday, centered about seven miles southwest of Los Gatos, University of California at Berkeley seismologists said. It was felt north and south of San Francisco...
...measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale, cracking portions of crowded Candlestick Park...