Word: seismicity
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...scientists, the great quake and its aftershocks were not surprising. Karen McNally, a geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, had warned in 1981 that substantial seismic activity was likely in the area. "Everything we had seen," she says, "could not allow us to exclude the possibility of a major earthquake...
...seeming paradox, the location of last week's quake was thought to be endangered because it had been calm for so long. The epicenter of the quake, in the ocean about 150 miles up the coast from Acapulco, lay within a kind of geological DMZ known as a seismic gap: a region that had not experienced a major earthquake for many years, but where bottled-up stress caused by tectonic-plate activity had reached the bursting point...
...official explained that the company offers businesses storage for data backup against the threat of disaster. "Earthquakes, fires, these things are very positive for us." Saboteurs are also positive peddling points, he said, as well as employee drug addicts selling information for dope. He spoke proudly of "seismic bracing" in the company's storage vaults...
...What interests me is a series of shocks and encounters a person can have," confesses Sculptor George Segal. For nearly three decades, the master of plaster has recorded those seismic occasions, and in George Segal (Rizzoli; 379 pages; $65), Art Historians Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne have gathered the best of them, from '50s paintings like Dead Chicken to his life-size casts of individuals trapped in time. Throughout his long career, the artist has trumpeted his message of alienation...
...plant has been a target of anti-nuclear activity for several years because it lies withing three miles of a seismic fault line...