Word: temblors
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That gesture was strikingly reminiscent of the angry words that Voltaire hurled at God-and at those of his fellow philosophers who endorsed the notion "Whatever is, is right"-in the wake of the disastrous temblor that leveled much of Portugal's capital in 1755, killing as many...
Nature's brute strength is never more frightening than during a major earthquake. The earth shifts with a sickening sway. Gaping fissures open in the ground. If the temblor strikes a populated area, roads may be torn up, buildings toppled and untold lives lost - as happened in Northeast Iran last year, when as many as 22,000 people were killed in two successive quakes. Such destructive force seems as devastating as a man-made nuclear blast. Fascinated by the awesome similarity, three Uni versity of Miami seismologists have now proposed using the power of the atom to tame...
...inhabitants of the seaport of Niigata, 160 miles north of Tokyo, have long regarded themselves as fortunate. In earthquake-prone Japan, Niigata had never been hit by a temblor. During World War II, Niigata suffered only minor U.S. air raids. On the August day in 1945 when the atom bomb was first dropped on Japan, Niigata was the alternate target in case of bad weather. But the skies that day had been clear over Hiroshima. Small wonder, Niigata was known as the "GoodLuck City...
...rebuilding the city for the next two years. Yet Niigata had not exhausted all its luck. Only 27 people died and 403 were injured-a miraculously low figure for an earthquake that measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, only slightly less than Japan's worst, the 7.9 temblor of 1923 that killed...
...worst recorded disaster in the nation's modern history, the quake was 100 times more violent than the temblor that killed some 20,000 in the Moroccan city of Agadir in 1960; if the epicenter had hit only 90 miles away in Teheran, scientists estimated, more than a million Iranians would have been killed or injured. Though every available rescue unit rushed to the stricken area, some of the villages were so remote that survivors huddled in the ruins for days before medicine and supplies reached them. A dozen nations offered Iran immediate aid. Within 28 hours after...