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...Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said the quake registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest tremor to hit the Los Angeles area since the 6.4 Sylmar quake of 1971 that killed 64 people...
...quake was recorded at 7:42 a.m. local time, centered about nine miles south-southeast of Pasadena at the north end of the Whittier-Elsinore Fault. Over the next three hours, at least 15 aftershocks measuring 3 or more on the Richter scale followed...
...ceramic superconductors will ever be capable of carrying the high electric currents necessary for generating strong magnetic fields. And no one has yet fashioned the inherently brittle material into a wire flexible enough to be wound into effective coils, though many research groups have reported progress. Says Burton Richter, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: "It took 25 years to turn the present superconductors from a laboratory curiosity into something that could be made into miles of cable. These are even more difficult materials to work with...
...first reports were optimistic. After two earthquakes rocked the northeastern mountains of Ecuador on March 5, the destruction in the capital of Quito, just 50 miles from the epicenter, appeared to be minor despite the temblors' high register of 7 on the Richter scale. But as reports began trickling in from Napo province, the remote Amazon jungle region that was most severely affected, the picture changed. Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates...
...comment on how wide the gap between concerns of the administration and those of students can become. For many students the question of Harvard's ties to final clubs was an important issue. Apparently, for the administration, the decision did not register high on the Richter scale of social change...