Chappell's diverse range of clients include: historical novelist Golden Keyes Parsons, whose novels are published by Thomas Nelson; «Survivor: Panama - Exile Island» cast member, Austin Carty, whose book High Points and Lows: Life, Love and Figuring it All Out is published by Penguin / Plume; Boston - based infectious disease expert, John Ross, M.D., whose book Shakespeare's
Tremor on the mysterious medical maladies of great writers is forthcoming from St. Martins; University of Virginia professors / psychologists Peter Sheras, Ph.D., and Phyllis Koch - Sheras, Ph.D.; and Atlanta - based relationship expert Dr. Janet Page, author of Get Married This Year: 365 Days to «I Do.»
The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude
tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.
By showing the value of recording those motions, ROMY could pave the way for miniature sensors that could help oil and gas prospectors and even planetary scientists who want to listen for
tremors on the moon and Mars.
It wasn't until the physicists tackled the intricacies of seismology, a discipline far removed from their training, that they were able to sort out the effects of
tremors on their exquisitely sensitive machine.
Because residents of the Battle Born State are no strangers to earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher and deal with aftershocks and
tremors on a regular basis, they should consider having earthquake insurance.
Because residents of the Battle Born State are no strangers to earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher and deal with aftershocks and
tremors on a regular basis, they should consider having earthquake insurance.
Not exact matches
QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast
on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8
tremor killed more than 650 people last month.
In a sense, these results are more like the
tremors felt in an earthquake zone: A sign that something larger is
on its way, and that the tectonic plates beneath the industry are shifting.
Last spring, Toronto - based Klick, a privately owned marketing agency focused
on the health care industry, unveiled a wearable device that digitizes the
tremors of someone suffering from Parkinson's disease then recreates them for someone else to feel first - hand.
The Cuadrilla project near Blackpool, northwest England, was abandoned after it triggered an earth
tremor that resulted in an 18 - month ban
on fracking, lifted in 2012.
Goldman Sachs took another axe to its growth forecasts for India
on Tuesday, as the
tremors from the government's shocking move to ban high - value banknotes reverberate across financial markets and the real economy.
His invention came after a 7.1 - magnitude
tremor struck
on Tuesday lunchtime, toppling scores of buildings in central states and in the capital, Mexico City.
Bainton goes
on to observe that we in «our secularized generation may have difficulty in understanding the
tremors» of our medieval forebear.
Lisbon was home to a quarter million, at least 60,000 of whom perished, both from the initial
tremor (reckoned now, like the Sumatran earthquake, at a Richter force of around 9.0) and from the tsunami that it cast up
on shore half an hour later (especially murderous to those who had retreated to boats in the mouth of the river Tagus to escape the destruction
on land).
In many countries in Asia we are increasingly facing these two alternatives — either to take seriously the subversive character of mission and face its consequence or to carry
on with activities — charitable, developmental, and others — which will not cause any
tremor in the existing system of things.
As the Mayo Clinic warns
on its Web site, large doses of caffeine — 500 to 600 milligrams, or roughly the equivalent of four or more cups of brewed coffee a day — can lead to insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, irritability, stomach upset, fast heartbeat and muscle
tremors.
Clarke passed away
on April 4 at age 72 in Stockton while preparing to coach the NorCal
Tremors club team.
While it's maybe not as significant as it once was,
tremors can still be felt from its impact
on today's Red Sox.
But Lara
Tremor, local development lovely, spots danger danger
on the hirsute chest of crony consultant Bob Slotsky.
The book draws
on a wide terrain: for example, he sees the popular response to the death of Diana as a foreshock or early
tremor of the coming Brexit as «the people» distanced themselves from the «establishment».
The team scored the mice
on a scale based
on the symptoms they presented, such as awkward gait, lethargy and
tremors, to monitor improvement.
And maybe one will have inhabitants dwelling
on a thin mutable crust, drilling, monitoring
tremors, building theories, seeking to understand what lies beneath them, and wondering if their world is miraculous or mundane.
«But low - and medium - intensity
tremors occur with a certain frequency in Brazil, and these can have drastic consequences depending
on where they happen,» said the principal investigator for the research project «Pantanal - Chaco - Paraná basins (PCPB): crust and upper mantle seismic structure and evolution,» supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
The system should be especially good at predicting aftershocks, such as the magnitude - 4.3
tremor that hit the central Italian quake zone
on Thursday.
Will the
tremor be of mild magnitude — say, a magnitude 4
on the Richter scale, the kind that occur all over the world every day — or a 9, which happens no more than once a decade
on average?
MASSIVE earthquakes, such as the one that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami
on 26 December 2004, could be predicted years in advance by monitoring
tremors caused by «Earth tides».
These can reduce the pressure
on tectonic plates, causing them to slip past each other, inducing
tremors.
After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with
tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast quakes — they settled
on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage even well - built structures.
These measurements are hard to do
on the ground owing to vibrations from street traffic, Earth
tremors and other disturbances.
Twenty - seven participants with
tremor - dominant Parkinson's disease were enrolled in the study; the research team randomly assigned 20 to be treated with focused ultrasound waves
on their brains, while the others received a fake procedure, to account for any potential placebo effect.
Several weeks later, the
tremors came
on when he tried to solve a sudoku puzzle, researchers report today in JAMA Neuroscience.
NEW DELHI — Indian scientists are about to embark
on an ambitious effort to drill into the Indian plate to monitor
tremors and other seismic signatures of impending earthquakes.
The generator sits
on a bed of 60 springs, which are necessary to ease the
tremors created when it decelerates after powering the magnet, creating an earth - shaking fury.
In his famous piece, An Essay
on the Shaking Palsy, Parkinson described a number of patients with key symptoms of the neurological condition, such as involuntary
tremors and diminished muscle control, and several decades later the disease was named after him.
Chinese Academy of Engineering scholar Li Wangping reports
on the CTGPC's Web site that the area registered 822
tremors in the seven months after the September 2006 reservoir - level increase.
These days, if an earthquake happens miles away, you may read about it
on Twitter before you even feel the
tremor.
Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano registered one of its most powerful earth
tremors yet
on Wednesday while the sinking of its caldera raised concerns of an eruption and flooding, authorities said
Many of the houses that were destroyed in the Kobe earthquake
on 17 January were built before 1965, and a haze of asbestos dust hung over the city for days after the
tremor.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight, the biggest since
tremors began 10 days ago, but there is still no sign of an eruption, the country's Meteorological Office said
on Tuesday.
The company's CEO, Anupam Pathak, Ph.D., received his doctorate from the U-M College of Engineering — where he first worked
on tremor - cancelling advanced microelectronic technologies for other purposes.
Their interest is more than purely academic, because triggered
tremors - if that is what they are - may warn that a really large quake is
on the way in the same place.
His team of 16 scientists takes six - hour shifts to monitor seismic stations
on Agung that record
tremors deep inside the mountain, GPS trackers that record changes in land features and CCTV cameras that provide 24 - hour surveillance.
On 28 June 1992, a major earthquake struck the sleepy town of Landers, California, 200 kilometres from Los Angeles, and within 24 hours, a rash of
tremors broke out in four other states, the most distant in northwestern Wyoming, more than 1000 kilometres away.
Sleepy white
on the surface, the location is alive with geologic and celestial activity, including
tremors, northern lights, and magnetic disturbances — a silent but pervasive bustle.
The magnitude - 8.2
tremor that hit the northern Chilean coast
on 1 April failed to relieve all the seismic stress that had built up in the rocks during the past 140 years, two separate studies report online today in Nature.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters)- A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run
on insurance policies for
tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes.
After underlining to Stati the importance of prudence when dealing with earthquakes, and in particular that one should never state that there won't be further
tremors, Bertolaso then went
on to tell her what the experts were to say: «It is a normal situation, these phenomena [the
tremors] happen, it's better that there are 100 magnitude - 4
tremors rather than silence because 100
tremors release energy and there won't ever be the damaging
tremor.»
The seven scientists took part in a meeting of an official advisory committee in L'Aquila
on 31 March 2009, called to analyze the danger posed by an ongoing series of small - and medium - sized
tremors that had shaken the town for several months.
The organization has recently been in the spotlight as a result of an ongoing trial in L'Aquila, in which seven scientists and engineers who served
on Italy's «Great Risks Commission» — including longtime INGV President Enzo Boschi — face charges of manslaughter for allegedly downplaying the chances of a major earthquake before the lethal
tremor that struck the city in April 2009.
The experts were full or acting members of a government advisory body known as the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks that met in L'Aquila
on 31 March 2009 to discuss the ongoing seismic «swarm» — a magnitude - 4.1
tremor had shook the town the day before.