Word: zanzerkiaã
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...Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation’s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins actually amplify seismic waves. According to Zanzerkia??€™s research, earthquake shocks that enter this softer ground become trapped and echo around the area rather than slowing to a stop as in hard bedrock. As a result, the force of the shock causes much more damage, putting Boston and Cambridge at risk of losing their most historic...
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