Word: temblor
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...during the Vietnam War. Double Blow INDONESIA A second powerful earthquake in as many days hit the country's remote eastern Papua province. Casualty estimates for the second quake weren't immediately available, but scientists measured it at 7.1 on the Richter scale, higher than the initial temblor, which left more than two dozen dead. Let the People Decide SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga...
Earthquakes usually strike without warning, but the timing of last week's temblor, a powerhouse registering 7.9 on the Richter scale, was particularly heartless. It hit the western state of Gujarat, near the Pakistan border, shortly before 9 a.m. on Republic Day, which honors the Indian constitution. Many Indians had just poured a cup of tea and turned on the TV to watch the annual military parade...
...over northwestern Turkey, in the hundreds of square miles savaged by the 7.4-level temblor, people have begun to emerge--slowly, fitfully--from their stupor. Turkish authorities, whose first response was a scandalous paralysis, have moved into action, directing relief where it is needed, working to forestall a second-wave tragedy of infectious disease. Survivors, many of them at first unwilling to budge from outside their fallen homes, hoping to salvage something--if not a loved one, perhaps some hoarded savings--are drifting into tent cities. Amid the uncertainty, both the leaders and the governed seem clear on one thing...
...make that happen, Idei is rumbling through Sony's management ranks like a temblor. He has already brought down Sony's board of directors, reducing its size while adding three outsiders. Last week the company announced another restructuring, giving more heft to its broadcasting business and creating a new company called Digital Network Solutions Co. Catchy...
Linde's work may never help seismologists determine which type of temblor is likely to strike which region, but he still believes the research has value. There may be no better way of understanding destructive quakes, he feels, than to learn what makes them less destructive...