Word: temblors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
...have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister but lives 40 miles away in Monterey, out of prime temblor territory...
...reliable as weather forecasting. Such optimism has proved premature. True, other quakes have been predicted in China and elsewhere. But more often than not they have struck without specific warning, as in Italy last week, and in Algeria last October. Only a year and a half after the Haicheng temblor, an 8.2 quake near Tangshan, 90 miles southeast of Peking, caught seismologists by surprise and killed as many as 650,000. Says Polish-born Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff: "At the present level of research, nature almost always surprises...