Word: temblors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollister were sitting down to their Thanksgiving Day dinners, the earth began to sway and rumble beneath them. The brief 1-to 2-sec. quake measured 5.2 magnitude and did little damage. But its impact still reverberates through the world of seismology. The accurate forecast of the Hollister temblor was a dramatic demonstration that scientists are on the verge of being able to predict the time, place and even the size of earthquakes...
...seismographs all over the world recorded a major earthquake centered in densely populated Mukden, an industrial area of northeastern China. The temblor measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, severe enough to have caused extensive casualties and property damage...
Rhetoric aside, if the Chinese were able to predict the temblor-and they are known to have a network of earthquake data stations manned by 10,000 professionals-it was indeed a remarkable achievement. It would mark the first time that a major quake has been predicted and a population warned in time to take precautionary measures...
...plants have drawn off so much water from underground streams. As if all this were not enough, geologists have warned that Tokyo is just about ripe for another major earthquake-and that at least 3,000,000 would die if it were anywhere near as intense as the 1923 temblor that killed...
That gesture was strikingly reminiscent of the angry words that Voltaire hurled at God-and at those of his fellow philosophers who endorsed the notion "Whatever is, is right"-in the wake of the disastrous temblor that leveled much of Portugal's capital in 1755, killing as many...