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I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.

~Christine Mcvie

Topics: Afterwards California Down Earthquakes Every Every Time Felt Home Life Me Months Out Place Prone Put Sat Scared Should Time Very

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It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

~Colin Camerer

Topics: Before Brains Bubble Crash Earthquakes Going Happening Like Over Pattern People Prices Regular See Some Study Then Up

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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Beauty Earthquakes Fog Great Lions Mountain Oceans Physical Spirit Wilderness

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It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Amount Chemicals Earth Earthquakes Gas High Massive Might Natural Natural Gas Pressure Problem Release Sand Shake Shatter Shooting Things Unexpected Up Water Worst

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If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.

~Debbie Harry

Topics: About Arthritis Causing Could Crazy Drains Drilling Earth Earthquakes Energy Foundation Giving Harming Know Layer Like Oil Promote Solar Sounds Surface Think Were Worried Would I Think

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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

~Earl Blumenauer

Topics: America Around Asia Becoming Disasters Earthquakes Feature Floods Globe Hurricanes Increasingly Large Large Numbers Latin Latin America Life Natural Natural Disasters Numbers People Regular Speaker Mr

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The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Apocalypse Bible Book Controversial Dreams Earthquakes Four Instead Moral Most Nightmares Offers Only Revelation Stories Strangest Teaching Visions War

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Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

~Eric Maskin

Topics: Become Crashes Day Earthquakes Economics Financial Hurricanes One Day Perhaps Predictable Sciences Then Until Wait Will

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I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.

~Gary Locke

Topics: Been Calm Earthquakes Fires Floods Forest Just Major Massive Possible Riots Seattle Through Try Wto

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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Ability Attacks Decentralized Depends Earthquakes Execution Explicit Hurricanes National Obedience Plans Respond Safety Scheme Security Terrorist Then Useless

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