Traders on the floor of a stock exchange,
waving slips of paper in the air and yelling like lunatics, were already being phased out in the 1980s, as firms adopted more efficient electronic trading platforms.
The GPS records described in the Science Express
paper show that within the zone that experienced the greatest amount
of slip during the earthquake — a region south
of the sources
of high - frequency
waves and closer to Kathmandu — the onset
of slip on the fault was actually very smooth.