Word: yash
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...earth tremor, which occurred in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was forecast by Yash Aggarwal, 33, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Aggarwal and another Lament scientist, Lynn Sykes, began to study the Blue Mountain Lake area two years ago, intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks...
...first, Western seismologists suspected that the change in velocity was peculiar to the geology of Central Asia: it seemed unlikely that the phenomenon could be used as a predicting tool in other quake-prone areas. Yash Aggarwal, a 30-year-old graduate student of Indian descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch...