Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week: Is this the big one, the monster quake along the San Andreas Fault that geologists consider inevitable? As it turned out, the earthquake was centered between Whittier and Pasadena, 30 miles from the San Andreas Fault, and it destroyed more nerves than it did buildings. Nonetheless, the shock reminded area residents just how quickly the big quake could come. Warned a California disaster-planning official: "This was a little wake-up call...
...quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, a small shock compared with the 8.1 horror that hit Mexico City in 1985 and the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe that carried a Richter punch later estimated at 8.3. Still, last week's temblor was the most potent in Southern California since 1971, when the San Fernando Valley rumbled under a 6.6 assault and 64 people died. Last week's quake left more than 100 injured and six dead, including an electrical repairman buried in an underground tunnel, a college student struck by falling concrete in a campus garage, and three people...
...film opens, Daddy (Johnny Hallyday) is away on business, or as the film chooses to call it, "in the hospital losing his spots." In what is probably the greatest shock of his life, son finds out in school that mama has lied. Daddy, it seems, is really in prison (gasp...
...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...assumed. The Indian government has said 2,700 people died at Bhopal. But in A Killing Wind (McGraw-Hill; 297 pages; $19.95), Author Dan Kurzman asserts that the death toll was at least 8,000. He speculates that Indian officials understated the figures in part to "keep the political shock waves under control...