Word: tremor
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...people remain trapped in the rubble. In Cariaco, about 30 miles east of Cumana, 26 students and teachers died after the town's school was demolished. Rescue workers were trying to free approximately 30 people buried in the debris. The upheaval was Venezuela's worst since a 6.7 magnitude tremor struck Caracas in July 1967, leaving 300 dead and 2,000 injured...
...effort, won ballot access in 27 of New York State's 31 congressional districts. The move in a single stroke destroyed Dole's "fire wall" in the Empire State and guaranteed that Dole would face a risky and expensive race for the state's 102 delegates. A similar tremor was moving through California G.O.P. circles, where operatives are aware that the Forbes message resonates among socially liberal, economically conservative Republicans. The Dole campaign knows this: two weeks ago, campaign manager Scott Reed ceded to Governor Pete Wilson--Dole's former opponent in the race--greater influence over the Dole campaign...
Sylvia Stanton Sellarole, 61, of Redlands, California, was not so lucky. For five years the registered nurse had suffered the uncontrollable tremor and halting steps characteristic of Parkinson's disease. But her hopes soared in 1993 when she heard Dr. Robert Iacono of the Loma Linda University Medical Center speak at a medical conference about practically curing the degenerative nerve disease in hundreds of patients. Iacono's unusual solution involved surgically destroying a tiny portion of the brain that some doctors think becomes overactive during the course of the illness. At first the operation on Sellarole seemed successful. Then...
...nonlinear dynamics, which means precise forecasting of when and where they will occur is impossible. In theory, major earthquakes should be preceded by smaller shocks. They are, but the earliest foreshocks may be so weak as to be hard to distinguish from background seismic ``noise.'' And for every small tremor that is followed by a big quake, others may not be followed by anything much...
...deeper underground (Northridge), even the time of day or night. The severity of a quake as gauged by energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly...