Posted on 12/01/2014 9:36:18 AM PST by JimSEA
Geologists may be close to cracking one of the biggest seismological mysteries in the Pacific Northwest: the origin of a powerful earthquake that rattled seven states and provinces when Ulysses S. Grant was president.
Preliminary evidence points to a newly discovered fault near the town of Entiat in Chelan County, Wash. The find adds to a growing body of evidence that Central and Eastern Washington are more quake-prone than previously thought, and will help refine seismic risks in an area that's home to 1.5 million people, more than a dozen hydropower dams and the Hanford nuclear reservation, said Craig Weaver, regional chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake programs
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-11-scientists-mystery-big-earthquake.html#jCp
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It would have been Pacific Time since Daylight Savings time didn't exist in the US before 1918...thus neither did the concept of Pacific Standard Time.
Daylight Savings time didn’t OFFICIALLY exist in the US before 1918.....Ben Franklin conceived of the idea in 1784 but did not act upon it............New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895 proposed what is now DST, but his shift was 2 hours instead of one.....Others as well...........
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html
I loved that guy!
Best bad guy ever!
I’ve been reading the Bible and concentrating on the wrath of God. What if He shakes the whole world and every fault quakes? He said He will be doing that.
Is that John Boehner?
>>Is that John Boehner?<<
Jim West NEVER cried! EVER!!!
It would probably divert the AIC (Agitator in Chief) away from promoting racism.
But he did like the tanning booth, didn’t he?
IBTAAG
536 ad. wasn’t that the time Cassiodorus wrote about the weird weather, and the pale sun and frost in summer? Which volcano was this one, the article didn’t say?
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