Word: seismologist
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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What scientists fear is that the southern San Andreas has reached a similarly critical threshold. "If the Landers earthquake put a little stress on the San Andreas," exclaims Allan Lindh, chief seismologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, "then what about the accumulated stress of 300 years of plate motion?" For Lindh and other experts, the Landers quake and its resulting tremors are all too reminiscent of the increased seismic activity that preceded the great San Francisco blowout of 1906. "I mean," says Lindh, with a dramatic pause, "how much more on the edge of our chairs...
...inheritance from an ethically questionable chemical company once operated by his grandfather. Fuel to the fire comes in the form of a peculiar series of earthquakes which are beginning to threaten the New England area. And if that weren't enough, Renee--an older, unattractive, brilliant and insecure Harvard seismologist with strong feminist tendencies, whom Louis finds himself falling reluctantly in love with--discovers that these turbulent terrestrial tremors could very well be the result of the avaricious and corrupt conduct of Louis' grandfather and his cohorts...