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Earthquake storms : the fascinating and volatile future of the San Andreas Fault
The lives of millions will be changed after it breaks, and yet so few people understand it, or even realize it runs through their backyard. Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault's fascinating history and its volatile future.
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Spectator at the Disaster
A reef of black rocks, normally visible only during extreme low tide, appeared just off a popular picnic spot known as Coconut Island. Close Encounters Grove Karl Gilbert, one of the first geologists to survey the American West and later acting director of the United States Geological Survey, once wrote, It is the natural and legitimate ambition of a properly constituted geologist to see a glacier, witness an eruption, and feel an earthquake.\\n Bear with me on this. (The point of the exercise was to study the structure of the Earth's crust.) Each of us was equipped with a portable seismograph to record the precise time the initial ground shaking arrived from the blast.
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The last volcano : a man, a romance, and the quest to understand nature's most magnificent fury
Documents the fifty-year career of Thomas Jaggar, the Harvard-educated volcano science pioneer who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, to share insights into his findings about massive volcanoes in such regions as Yellowstone, Alaska, and Hawaii-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Volcano Myths and Rituals
Meanwhile, at a nearby village, holy men and hundreds of their followers lit incense and placed rice and fruit and other offerings in small, makeshift boats, then sent the miniature flotilla down a river. The Aeta, an indigenous people living on Luzon in the Philippines, considered the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo as nature's rebellion against the government's granting of permission for geothermal drilling and for jets from nearby Clark Air Base, then the largest U.S. military base overseas, to use the area for bombing practice.
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Anatomy of a basaltic volcano
Kilauea volcano, in Hawaii, may be the best understood basaltic volcano in the world. Magma rises from a depth of 80 km or more and resides temporarily in near-surface reservoirs: eruption begins when the crust above one of these reservoirs splits open in response to a pressure increase. Repeated rift-zone eruptions compress Kilauea's flanks; after decades of accumulation, the stress is relieved in catastrophic earthquakes and southward displacement of the volcano's south flank.
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MICROSOFT BLOWS IT
Furthermore, the company had developed all these peculiar and seemingly lucrative offers to information providers to produce content for MSN. In addition to that, Microsoft was in the process of buying content companies. I recall a VC telling me around that period that Microsoft might have a stranglehold on content by the year 2000. Everything was set to go. The company was ready to rock the online world. Then the whining began.
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