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...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...
Racing Rupture. Such shallow earthquakes, which are apt to be the most violent and do the most damage, are usually caused by sections of the earth's crust slipping past each other along great cracks called faults. Most of the time, a fault is motionless, its two rock faces pressed tightly together, cemented, perhaps, by chemical action. During these quiet periods, tension builds up along the fault. If the fault finally yields at one point, the rupture races along it at several miles per second. Hundreds of miles of rock relax like a broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy...
...John Callum's Laertes is simply a stupid, shallow young man. Claudius slaps down the rebellion that Laertes leads to the palace and lectures him like a boy, and the depth of Ophelia's passion at her father's death shows up his foolishness. He stabs Hamlet not as a desperate act on the part of an honorable man, but as the venal act of a fool. The textual validity of the interpretation is somewhat questionable; Hamlet, after all, thinks of Laertes as a "very noble youth." Callum, however, makes a consistent and plausible character...
...site of a brewhouse that may have slaked the thirst of Henry VIII, Speculator George Downing built a row of houses whose shallow timber foundations sank readily into the squishy soil of what had once been an island. What remains of Downing's houses on his narrow street across from government offices at Whitehall are Nos. 10, 11 and 12, all interconnected to make a warren of 200 rooms...
...miles from Montreal to Duluth and links 22 Great Lake ports with the Atlantic, but it has failed to attract the expected commercial traffic. The Seaway's troubles stem from a combination of engineering shortcomings and poor financial planning. For one thing, the Seaway is too shallow to accommodate large freighters. Most of its ports are ill-equipped to load and unload ships, and passage through the 15 sets of locks is tedious and slow; the average ship takes ten days to travel from Chicago to Montreal. Because the waterways freeze over for four months each winter, shippers cannot...