41. Geller, an American, asserts that earthquakes are chaotic phenomena, and that how large one becomes is determined by a myriad of unmeasurable details. 42. Government officials said the earthquake was one of several factors that depressed consumer spending throughout the nation in the first quarter. 43. His massive stomach trembled like a miniature earthquake was on the way. 44. Historically, the survey notes, deep earthquakes are much less likely to be followed by aftershocks than are shallow earthquakes. 45. However, while a giant earthquake would not be unheard of, it is apparently unwritten of. 46. I said that earthquakes were worse because there was no predicting them. 47. If the earthquake had been larger or the damage more widely dispersed, Bauman said, emergency teams would have had a hard time handling the problem. 48. In all types of plate boundaries, earthquakes are common, produced by the jarring and jolting of the moving plates. 49. In historic times, Jacob said, there have been earthquakes that produced North Atlantic tidal waves. 50. In fact, a devastating earthquake is the only real and imminent crisis I feel I must prepare the city for. |