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  • "Boatwright," he said, shaking the upright old man's hand.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Associated Press Seismologist Jack Boatwright is an expert on the shaking intensity of the massive earthquake that rocked San Francisco in 1906.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • Mr. Boatwright: We had a swarm of earthquakes, the largest of which was a magnitude 4 in a two-week period along the Hayward Fault system.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • Mr. Boatwright: The San Andreas Fault which passes through the Peninsula doesn't characteristically have swarms like this.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • Mr. Boatwright: The Hayward Fault is the most likely in the Bay Area to have a magnitude 7, which reaches a threshold for doing strong damage.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • Mr. Boatwright: This gets into a question of very active research.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • We have Manly Wade Wellman's SILVER JOHN character coming your way in a graphic novel comprised of a handful of shorter works as adapted by Jim and Becky Beard and illustrated by Thomas Boatwright.

    Alexandra Holzer: Michael Hudson Is Pulp Fiction, Part 2 Alexandra Holzer 2012

  • Jack Boatwright, who has witnessed many earthquakes in 30 years of working at the U.S. Geological Survey's Menlo Park office, took notice this fall when a string of temblors emanated from Berkeley.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • Mr. Boatwright: The Earth is very ungenerous with giving clues.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

  • To try to figure out when the Big One might eventually hit, seismologists like Mr. Boatwright, who leads the USGS's Northern California earthquake hazards investigations, are poring over data from the Berkeley quakes for clues about how the East Bay's Hayward Fault is moving.

    Seismologist on What Berkeley Quakes Mean Geoffrey A. Fowler 2012

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