EARTHQUAKES BIG ONE COULD BE FELT ACROSS CALIFORNIA SCIENCE: Caltech study suggests that hazards may have to be re-evaluated.PASADENA - Californians having been hearing for decades that anenormously powerful earthquake...Figueroa, James
Seismologist Charles Richter, also an alumnus, developed the magnitude scale that bears his name, the Richter scale for measuring the power of earthquakes. In engineering, Theodore von Kármán made many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow ...
droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and landslides on steep terrain; California also has several volcanoes. It has many earthquakes due to several faults running through the state, the largest being the San Andreas Fault. About 37,000 earthquakes are recorded each year; most are too small to...
When Joe Kirschvink talks about animal magnetism, he doesn’t mean sexual chemistry. A 34-year-old associate professor of geobiology at Caltech, he has shown that creatures have tiny magnets in their heads, giving them a sixth sense--the ability to navigate in the earth’s magnetic field. ...
And amazing things indeed have happened at Caltech over the years. Theodore von Kármán developed the principles that made jet flight possible, Charles Richter published his logarithmic scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes, and astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered the nature of quasars. ...
How the two California earthquakes compare Both last night’s earthquake and the one that hit on the Fourth of July are part of an ongoing sequence, CalTech seismologist Lucy Jones said. Here’s how the two compare: Last night’s was stronger: Friday night’s 7.1-magnitude quake releas...