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...snapped to attention when a moderate earthquake, rated 4.6 on the Richter scale, rattled windows, spilled coffee and broke ceramic figurines. Reason: the earthquake followed a much publicized prediction that the fault is likely to produce a major shock come Dec. 3, and many people feared last week's tremor could be a precursor. The prediction, which has made its way into several newspapers, was the work of Iben Browning, a New Mexico climate consultant, who based his forecast on an analysis of the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. Many seismologists, worried that public concern could degenerate into...
...remarkable that he heard it at all. The candor of Salman's visitors was a manifestation of how the tremor from Kuwait has shaken the fixtures of Saudi society, one of the world's most conservative realms. For the first time since the visionary warrior-statesman Abdul Aziz, generally known as Ibn Saud, proclaimed his kingdom in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been confronted by the alarming threat of conquest. In coping with that challenge, the country and its 14.5 million inhabitants find themselves poised on the sword edge of change. The modernization and enrichment of Saudi life produced...
...hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered it vulnerable to earthquakes. In 1968 one tremor killed 18,000 people. Ten years later, another killed...
Australians were caught off guard by the quake's intensity, though it measured only 5.5 on the Richter scale, vs. 7.1 for the tremor that rocked San Francisco Oct. 17. The principal damage occurred in the heart of the city of 430,000, where the Newcastle Workers' Club collapsed, trapping staff members ) and morning bingo players. Emergency personnel were flown from Sydney to help with rescue efforts, but by week's end the city was still crippled. Preliminary estimates set the cost of the destruction at more than $1 billion...
Much the same humiliation befell NBC's network news operation after last month's California earthquake. KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, tried to transmit its footage of the disaster to NBC via satellite. But for more than an hour after the tremor, a glitch-prone NBC network was unable to broadcast any live reports. Meanwhile, CNN, which had access to the same satellite signal, was airing KRON's vivid images of the destruction...