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Taiwan's high-tech industries shaken not stirred by quake

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Companies based at the Hsinchu Science Park are likely to have suffered losses amounting to at least $315 million as a result of the recent earthquake in Taiwan in which at least 2,000 people died. Taiwanese industry as a whole will face losses of NT$100 billion. However, the country's National Science Council believes that almost half of Hsinchu's losses can be recovered in 1999 because the earthquake caused very little damage. Some 8,000 private researchers at the park have already resumed their work, while the two universities nearby were not affected.

Taiwan, High technology industry, Earthquakes, Natural disasters

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Shaken, not stirred

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The fifty-five-meter-high Hagia Sophia, one of the famous buildings in Istanbul, Turkey, a city frequently ravaged by earthquakes, has survived fifteen centuries of earthquakes, much to the amazement of historians who have debated how the building withstood such seismic stress, and whether its architects planned it that way. Computer models and chemical analyses have begun to provide clues as to how the venerable building has resisted the area's numerous earthquakes.

Turkey, Analysis, Environmental aspects, Monuments, Earthquake resistant design, Hagia Sophia Monument

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Shaken, not stirred

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Issues surrounding the deformation of the Earth's mantle and the problems involved in obtaining a dynamic picture of the mantle are discussed. A model of global mantel flow and structure is examined.

Earth, Mantle (Geology)

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