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...about $70 million last year, and public interest is growing. But a recent state report warns that many insurance companies would not be able to pay off all the claims they would face if a quake the size of San Francisco's 1906 calamity (8.3 on the Richter scale) struck again. Losses for a quake of similar proportions, says the report, would reach $5.5 billion in Los Angeles and $3.9 billion in the San Francisco Bay Area...
...Tenement Six is on their new Elektra/Asylum album, Buscando America (Searching for America). All the record's seven cuts are sung in Spanish, but if there is a better album this year in any language, its impact will have to be measured off the charts. On the Richter scale, maybe...
Goals; H, Tim McCaffrey 3, Tom Corcoran 2, Chris Pujols 2, Jamia Wright 2, Martin Garcia, Peter Follows, Rob Hurlbut; CWP, Pete Sanders 2, Jim Dobreff 2, Tom Germano 2, Wade Richter, Rich Mullen, Jim Bovich, Sal Mattese, John Campbell...
...agreement that limits underground detonations to 150 kilotons (150,000 tons of TNT). Although the force of the weapon tested last week was classified, DOE officials said it was considerably lower than 20 kilotons, the explosive yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The blast registered 4.5 on the Richter scale on seismographs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But DOE officials said the instruments probably gave a high reading because the test was conducted in hard rock, which sends out a more powerful seismic ripple than does sandy soil. The incident is not expected to interfere with future...
Muratbagi was just one of 44 villages in mountainous eastern Turkey that suffered serious damage from the quake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. By week's end the total number of dead had reached 1,339, nearly twice as many as in the celebrated San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The shock even succeeded in overshadowing the campaigning for Turkey's first national elections since the military seized power...