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...March 31, and an especially dark, warm night has closed in on the Embassy Suites in Montgomery, Alabama. The hotel stands next to Union Station, the city’s railway stop turned swanky visitors’ center, stocked with promo maps that show tourists where to find the Rosa Parks Museum and Library or the house where Martin Luther King Jr. lived while preaching at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church...
Caleb Foote ’39, former managing editor of the Harvard Crimson who later became a pacifist organizer and notable advocate for bail reform, died of a blood infection on March 4 in Santa Rosa, California. He was 88 years old. A New England native, Foote was born in Cambridge and attended Harvard College from 1935 to 1939. Two years later, he received his masters degree in economics from Columbia University. At Harvard, Foote lived in Whigglesworth his freshman year and in Eliot House, where he was elected to the House Committee. As a sophomore, he ran for Student...
...seismologist Jack Boatwright has assembled a ShakeMap for 1906--a map that displays the intensity of shaking in different areas. For San Francisco and other communities close to the San Andreas, it was quite severe. But even more severe was the shaking that occurred in the city of Santa Rosa, more than 15 miles away from the fault. On a scale of 1 to 10, Santa Rosa stands out as a 9-plus, somewhere between "violent" and "extreme...
...bathtub filled with water," says USGS seismologist Thomas Brocher. "When you start splashing, the waves keep bouncing up and down and from side to side." The basin effect amplifies not only the intensity of the shaking but also its duration, which is no doubt why buildings collapsed in Santa Rosa in 1906, killing some 100 people. There are similar sedimentary basins throughout the Bay Area--around the Silicon Valley city of Cupertino, for example, and the expanding subdivisions that surround the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...shaking intensities, from low-intensity blue to medium-intensity yellow and high-intensity red. Then Aagaard calls up 1906. The difference is immediately apparent. This time red flows across the landscape like a river of lava, and among the places that glow the brightest is the area around Santa Rosa, just as the ShakeMap says it should...