Word: richter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl in a see-through blouse ran up and kissed me without any warning at all. O, man. California...
More than 200 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a severe earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S. Geological Survey in Washington estimated the quake's strength at 7.2 on the Richter scale...
Bill Clinton is jerking up and down. For two days, he has postponed flying in from Washington, but even now two Richter 5.1 aftershocks startle his entourage at a "town meeting" he is holding at a Burbank airport. The news he has heard is bad. Broken freeways and the busted utilities cost a tremendous amount of money. The quake closed down 150 public schools, and there are worries about insurance coverage. It is a fact that 60% of the city's homeowners did not carry any. California Governor Pete Wilson has sent Clinton his estimated bill: between $15 billion...
Registering 6.6 on the moment-magnitude scale, a measure of earthquake energy that among scientists has largely replaced the Richter scale, the Northridge temblor didn't qualify as a Big One. (The San Andreas Fault, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, could produce a magnitude-8 quake, which would be more than 85 times as powerful.) But don't tell that to the people of Northridge and surrounding communities...
...major earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck near Los Angeles, killing 55 people and causing an estimated $15 billion to $30 billion in damage. The quake's epicenter was in a community northwest of L.A. in the densely populated San Fernando Valley. Across the city and its suburbs, houses collapsed, streets buckled and gas and water mains ruptured. Overpasses of three heavily traveled freeways fell in; repairing them may take a year or longer. More than 1,000 aftershocks occurred, and at week's end 20,000 displaced residents were sleeping in parks and on the streets...