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Also competing for funds is the Kodiak Restoration Committee, a partnership of native groups, fishermen, businesses and government agencies in the Kodiak Island Borough, a 51,800-sq-km (20,000 sq. mi.) district at the southernmost point of the Valdez spill zone. While the borough's wildlife escaped serious damage, its all-important fishing industry suffered mightily. "Domestic violence and divorces soared, and visits to mental-health services almost doubled," says borough Mayor Jerome Selby. "We're never going to be able to mend the social fabric of the community." The borough wants $280 million to create nature preserves...
...southernmost section of the San Andreas has made scientists jumpy for some time now. Between 1948 and 1986, the region adjacent to the fault experienced only one earthquake of magnitude 5.8 or higher.* Since then there have been seven, including the Landers quake, which weighed in at an impressive 7.5. Moreover, this surge in seismicity appears to be occurring on a worrisome schedule. Excavations of old lake-bed sediments by Caltech paleoseismologist Kerry Sieh in the mid-1980s indicate that large earthquakes have roared through this section of the San Andreas at not quite 300-year intervals. The last such...
Only four years ago, scientists gave the stuck plates along the southernmost section of the San Andreas a 40% chance of snapping sometime in the next 30 years. At the same time, they warned that a rupture of this part of the fault & could trigger earthquakes along neighboring segments, possibly as far west as San Bernardino and nearly as far north as Bakersfield. Result: the long-feared Big One -- an earthquake of magnitude 8, five times as powerful as Landers -- on the doorstep of the populous Los Angeles Basin. Now, in the seismic spoor of the Landers earthquake, scientists have...
...life. Like most of the coastal waters around the continent, McMurdo Sound is filled with plankton and fish, and its thick ice is perforated by the breathing holes of Weddell seals. Nearby Cape Royds is home to thousands of Adelie penguins, which hatch their eggs in the world's southernmost rookery. Skuas -- seagull-like scavenger birds -- scout the breathing holes and the margins between sea ice and land, seeking seal carcasses and unguarded baby penguins to feast on. The ice itself is permeated with algae and bacteria...