Kathmandu's basin of soft sediments helped
amplify low -
frequency waves, as seen in its destructive effect on taller buildings, says Youssef Hashash, an earthquake engineer
at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and the lead author of a report published last week that documented the quake's damage to infrastructure.
Instead, spontaneously transformed cells arose from the heterozygotes
at a
low frequency, and the majority of these cells had
amplified the mutant allele.