Word: seismicity
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...kept the rest, in case oil should be found. Later, the Sultan gave Phillips two offshore oil concessions, one of which he sold to a group headed by Wintershall A.G. of West Germany, keeping a 5% royalty. The West German firms are about to start seismic soundings. This year Phillips also acquired from the Sultan copper-mining and commercial fishing rights in Oman...
...Rockville, Md., one noon last week, geophysicists closed the circuits of the world's first earthquake-information center, connecting 400 seismic reporting stations throughout the world. In Oyster Bay, L.I., oceanographers launched a new wire-drag ship to hunt for undersea hazards, joining a fleet of 14 research vessels already commissioned. Throughout the week, weather satellites scanned the atmosphere for hurricanes, while "Project Stormfury's" planes stood ready to try diverting any budding tropical storm. All these related functions-and many more-are now controlled and operated by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), the bounciest baby bureaucracy...
...hope is that coordinated effort will lead to more efficient collection and dissemination of environmental phenomena-and far better understanding. ESSA's immediate goals include daily forecasting as well as faster warnings for tornadoes, seismic sea waves (tsunamis), floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters. The ultimate goal is to control this environment...
When the second and incredibly violent eruption ripped Thera around 1470 B.C., however, it caused the central and western part of the little island to sink and generated tsunamis (seismic sea waves) between 100 and 165 feet high. "Within 20 minutes, these waves hit the Cretan coast with terrifying fury," says Marinates, "destroying everything they could reach." The waves were accompanied by a rain of volcanic ash that buried nearly everything left standing and by fumes that poisoned the population. In the wake of the catastrophic eruption, most of the surviving Minoans fled Crete, sailing to other Mediterranean islands, mainland...
Died. Maurice Neville Hill, 46, British oceanographer, a Cambridge University professor who in 1 947 devised a method of determining the thickness of the earth's crust by measuring the seismic effect of explosions in the water, thereafter led a series of expeditions that in 1953 placed the thickness of the crust beneath the Atlantic at an average three miles; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Cambridge...