Word: seismicity
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...moment, each seems determined to match the other, bomb for bomb. After India detonated five nuclear devices two weeks ago, the question was not whether Pakistan would respond but when. At 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded...
Spielberg can't be blamed for that seismic shift in the industry. Jaws only happened to inaugurate it. If the shark had sunk for good (as it threatened to during the troubled filming), another picture would have ushered in the age of the movie best sellers--maybe Star Wars, in 1977. And no one is more aware than Spielberg of his own weaknesses. When I asked him once to make the case against his films, he grinned and started the list: "They say, 'Oh, he cuts too fast; his edits are too quick; he uses wide-angle lenses; he doesn...
...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...
Together they created a "reference earth model"--a model of the earth that seismologists can use to measure seismic waves and other geophysical phenomena...