Word: seismologist
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...possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...
Died. Alexandrovich Gamburtsev, 52, leading Russian seismologist, director of the Geophysical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; in Moscow...
...another series of experiments, the group has made great progress in interpreting the seismologist's wave signals--from laboratory work--trying to determine the velocity of earthquake waves in rocks under certain conditions of temperature and pressure. Because of this seismologists are able to examine records of underneath wave velocities with increasing knowledge about the nature of the material through which the waves pass...
Died. Bailey Willis, 91, Stanford University's longtime (since 1915) professor of geology, explorer and world-famed seismologist who was credited with predicting Santa Barbara's disastrous earthquake of 1925; after short illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...five months long experiments, which begin June 1, will take place in Utah and Colorado. Seismologist Leet will take charge of instruments recording the effects of explosives on various types of underground tunnels and shelters...