Word: seismologist
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...quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy when the earth's plates will shift, triggering a quake. All the same, seismologist McCloskey believes the omens aren't good. He says the stress that brought about the two massive convulsions of the past three months has still not been relieved and has simply shifted farther south along the fault line. That means another massive temblor is not out of the question. "We dearly...
Other winners this year, ranging in age from 29 to 60, include a seismologist who works to prevent natural disasters in third-world countries, a glass bead artist, and an anthropologist who uses fossilized plants to understand ancient cultures...
...seismologist Charles Richter develops a scale for measuring the strength of earthquakes...
Ekstrom, a seismologist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said he is very excited about his tenure and happy that he will continue his earthquake research at Harvard...
...seconds--higher-magnitude quakes typically shudder for 60 seconds or more--through the Elysian Park fault under downtown Los Angeles? ``The only way to get a full picture of how buildings react in an earthquake is to have one,'' says Thomas Heaton, a Geological Survey seismologist. But computer simulations undertaken by Heaton and collaborators show that steel- frame high-rises could have their feet kicked out from under them, and low buildings sitting on spongy pads could be smashed against their concrete foundation walls...