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...tremor notched a 5.2 on the Richter scale, a relatively modest earthquake, but it was the largest to shake the Boston area in recent years...
...famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906 that killed thousands of people registered an 8.3 on the Richter scale. Yesterday's, in comparison, probably brought no damage because it started in an unpopulated area. Even if it had centered in a major city it would only have caused minor damage to a few chimneys, walls, and tombstones, said John Ebel, a seismologist at an observatory in Weston, Mass...
...minds of most Americans, it does not really turn to summer until the Fourth of July. And in fact not all of the omens for the holiday were grim. San Diego was shaken by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded there (4.6 on the Richter scale), but only some vases and plumbing were broken. Neither the new lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano nor the tornadoes that swirled through eastern Iowa and northern Illinois killed anyone. Not good news, but not disasters either: if those were acts of God, at least he pulled his punches. -By Kurt Andersen...
While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
...believe that the stress regime is related to the San Andreas." Loose translation: the Coalinga quake did nothing to relieve the slow buildup of forces along the fault that virtually all scientists believe will eventually result in a major quake (8 or higher on the Richter scale...