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Divide by 10. That theory was proposed in 1960 by University of Athens Seismologist Anghelos Galanopoulos, who believes that Plato misread by a factor of 10 the dimensions of Atlantis and the date of its destruction given in an Egyptian manuscript. Dividing by 10, Galanopoulos came up with an area roughly encompassing Thera and Crete; similarly reducing Platos date to 900 years before Solon, he moved the destruction of Atlantis forward to about 1490 B. C. At about that time, a well-documented volcanic eruption plunged large portions of Thera into the sea, rained lethal vapors and debris on Crete...
...birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that he bought...
...James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter's scale for measuring earth tremors is an international standard...
...Seismologists are still analyzing the wiggly lines with which their instruments recorded the quake, and their work will go on for months or years. But already they know that the epicenter (the place on the earth's surface that is directly above the underground source of trouble) was located somewhere between Anchorage and Valdez in a wild, uninhabited region of glaciers and high, rugged mountains. Caltech's famed Seismologist Charles F. Richter thinks that the focus-the point where the shock originated-was at the comparatively shallow depth of 20 miles below the epicenter...
...Alaska quake was a bell ringer too. Seismologist Jack Oliver of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory says that the whole earth vibrated every 54 minutes. The maximum surface movement was about one-third of an inch and was very gradually diminishing toward the fadeout point...