Word: seismically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that some devices may not have gone off during Pakistan's tests," reports TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Pakistan claimed to have detonated five devices in its first test, but U.S. agencies detected only one blast. "They allow that it might have been three devices detonating simultaneously, but the seismic strength of the blast was too low to have been five devices," adds TIME reporter Stuart Stogel. Since then, Defense Department sources have told TIME that Pakistan appears to be grappling with how to dismantle unexploded atomic bombs encased in concrete amid a sea of radiation, and which could still...
...Without Europe?s support on immediate, tough action against India, the best efforts of the U.S. are unlikely to avert another seismic bang -- leaving Washington to ponder how a region tapped for another photogenic presidential excursion later this year suddenly turned into a nuclear hot zone...
...major earthquakes shook the ground in the Boston area yesterday, but Baird Professor of Science Adam M. Dziewonski must have felt a few tremors when awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Crafoord prize for his work in developing the field of "seismic tomography...
Although Anderson said he is unsure whether the Academy awarded the Crafoord prize for work the two professors did together or independently, he said both scientists were instrumental in the development of the field of seismic tomography...
Together they created a "reference earth model"--a model of the earth that seismologists can use to measure seismic waves and other geophysical phenomena...