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...team of seismologists found, the pressure had shifted farther south along the fault lines. The paper concluded that the chance of another major earthquake in the area, perhaps one capable of generating a tsunami, was high. In the case of earthquakes, McCloskey wrote in his paper, "lightning does strike twice...
...region every 200 years or so. The last earthquakes to occur near the newly stressed area south of last week's temblor were in 1797 and 1833?meaning quakes could be primed to occur again soon. There's no way to tell when an earthquake will strike?scientists can measure the stress on a fault, but they don't know how much force it can bear. Still, two massive quakes in quick succession are a reminder of how little the earth under and around Sumatra can be trusted...
...applied to join the Discalced Carmelites, a monastic order, only to be gently rebuffed by superiors who saw in him another sort of potential. But he had maintained a contemplative practice. (Rocco Buttiglione, a friend and an author, once described the Pontiff's reverie: "The faith is like a strike of lightning, illuminating everything.") His devotion to the Virgin Mary, to whom his personal motto--Totus tuus (All yours)--referred, was lifelong, and he was known to prostrate himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal...
...rangelands of Texas, bringing a new threat, fire. To conserve water, most desert species in the Southwest grow far apart, making it hard for fires to spread. Buffel grass grows easily in dry soil, forming a carpet of dry, flammable stalks that burns very hot after a lightning strike and can engulf cacti, yucca, ocotillo and the paloverde trees. "None of the native plants have fire adaptation. If they burn, they die," says Tom Van Devender, a senior research scientist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. "If there is recurring fire, you get a conversion from desert...
...will move at a slower rate. Remember that when you copy individual files or file folders to the external drive, the originals will remain on your local drive unless you go back and delete them. The point of backing up is to have that extra copy, should some disaster strike your machine. On the other hand, moving your media collection off your local drive will free up space, and possibly improve your PC's overall performance. A hard drive that's close to maxing out can really slow things down, notes Omid Rahmat, publisher of tomshardware.com, a how-to site...