Word: trembler
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Ashraf S. Hegazy '96 will begin accepting donations today from students and the community to aid victims of Monday's trembler which leveled buildings and killed an estimated 450 people...
Recent studies have shown that the ground rose noticeably before the 1971 San Fernando quake that killed 58 people in California's last major trembler. Before a 1964 quake that destroyed much of Niigata, Japan, the ground lifted two inches, and the Chinese discovered an elevation of the land in Liaoning province before the Manchurian earthquake of February...
Finding the bomb is the least of it. Most German bombs had an electric fuse charged by current flowing through a long telescopic arm at the moment of release. When the bomb hit the ground, the shock worked a "trembler switch" that touched off the bomb's main charge. After 14 years, these electric fuses are dead, but what about the clockwork fuses used to back them up? Answer: a magnetic clock-stopper to freeze the mechanism...
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