Word: seismically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipyards from Belfast to Kiel are turning out drilling platforms to overcome a worldwide short age. All this activity is a result of the mammoth pocket of gas that was discovered in 1959 by Esso and Shell in the coastal Dutch province of Groningen near the German border. Seismic tests have since convinced oilmen that the North Sea may contain the world's biggest bubble of natural gas. Though drilling has so far yielded nothing further off the Dutch coast and only inconclusive results in German waters, the scramble to find the undersea riches now involves at least...
...Seismic Rumble. A tireless field man himself, Perkins accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on an expedition to hunt down the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, returned with the disappointing news that the big tracks had been made by foxes and other small animals, whose imprints subsequently melted into scary giant forms. Jim Fowler, 34, the apotheosis of Jungle Jim, spent a month in Africa putting together a documentary on elephants. A television first for an upcoming Kingdom show: Fowler's recordings of elephant stomach rumblings, which are seismic...
Such macabre humor was the exception in the wake of Alaska's Good Friday earthquake. More than 125 were dead or missing in the disaster, most of them in Alaska, the rest as a result of seismic sea waves that hit Oregon and California. The cost in property damage was, by latest estimate, more than $500 million. Downtown Anchorage was decimated; Seward, Kodiak, and scattered towns near the epicenter of the earthquake were all but wiped...
...toward the northwest. The two currents are at right angles to each other, and their force makes the crust yield sideways, forming the great Fairweather Fault running up the Alaskan coast. The fault is a prolific spawning ground for earthquakes, and at its northern end is another source of seismic trouble: the great Aleutian Arc, which was formed by Siberia pressing southeastward into the Pacific and is dotted with active volcanoes. The Fairweather Fault and the Aleutian Arc intersect near Anchorage -which, as Good Friday proved, makes the site a shaky place for building a city...
Fifteen hundred miles away, an earthquake was devastating Anchorage, Alaska, and a ring of nearby towns and villages. With the thunderous impact of a mountain falling into the sea, the shock waves from Alaska rippled outward, sending tsunamis (seismic sea waves) around the Pacific, flooding portions of North American western shores, coursing across the sea toward Japan and southward toward Hawaii...