Word: seismicity
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...this time, much more was to rock Nicaragua's carefree capital. In less than two hours of violent seismic shocks two days before Christmas the city was virtually destroyed. At least 20,000 people were injured. Perhaps 6,000 or so dead were carted to mass graves and buried under the falling rubble that had killed them in the city's devastated center; many corpses were cut open, doused with gasoline and set afire in the streets where they had fallen, in order to prevent contamination...
...seem like it's a long way away, but it's as close as North Cambridge where Bolt, Beranek and Newman works on antisubmarine warfare devices. Its basic research on acoustics is useful in developing acoustic and seismic sensors used in Indochina. Parachuted from planes, the acoustic sensors become caught in trees where they pick up "enemy" conversations. Seismic sensors--disguised as tropical plants and animal droppings--detect ground vibrations caused by human movement. The information from both types of sensors is relayed to the central computer in Thailand, where it is used to determine bombing targets. (Although "people sniffers...
Colombian Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's only novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was a seismic literary event in Latin America when first published in 1967. Translated three years later, it received awestruck notices in the U.S., and has continued to attract not so much readers as proselytizers. The chronicle of an enchanted town called Macondo, it is a "good read" in the Dickensian sense: it has abundant life, a tangle of characters and plots, all supported by a clear moral viewpoint...
Even more intriguing, the greatest flow of gases was detected last March 7, when the seismometers left on the moon were registering strong rumblings in the lunar interior. Convinced that the timing of the seismic activity and ion flows was more than coincidental, Freeman concluded that water may well have burst forth from the moon in geyser-like eruptions, an event that would have been recorded by the seismometers...
This debris, say the plaintiffs, could travel outside the U.S., thus violating the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Even if no materials escape initially from the 6,150-ft.-deep shafts, they argue, later seismic action could shake them loose. Most serious is the claim that the AEC has in fact broken the law by not filing an adequate environmental-impact statement on the test as required by the 1969 National Environmental Policy...