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... earth- quakes remain hard to answer . Why do they start ? What makes them stop ? Does a fault tend to slip a little - telegraphing its malign intent— before it breaks catastrophically ? Why do some small quakes grow into bigger quakes ...
... earth- quakes remain hard to answer . Why do they start ? What makes them stop ? Does a fault tend to slip a little - telegraphing its malign intent— before it breaks catastrophically ? Why do some small quakes grow into bigger quakes ...
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... Earth , two slabs of rock began moving in opposite directions . An earthquake will unzipper a fault at two miles per second . This one broke north and south . In some places the slip was just 6 or 7 feet , but elsewhere the ground ...
... Earth , two slabs of rock began moving in opposite directions . An earthquake will unzipper a fault at two miles per second . This one broke north and south . In some places the slip was just 6 or 7 feet , but elsewhere the ground ...
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... Earth in vivid photo- graphic detail . In the course of the investigation , a scientist named Harry Fielding Reid figured out why earthquakes happen . Reid studied all the reports of ground motion , of roads and fence lines offset by ...
... Earth in vivid photo- graphic detail . In the course of the investigation , a scientist named Harry Fielding Reid figured out why earthquakes happen . Reid studied all the reports of ground motion , of roads and fence lines offset by ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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