flake n.— «The term “flood” insurance parlance refers to damages caused by the “rising of navigable waters.” In the New York area, he says, most carriers issue a limit of $1 or $2 million, with more coverage being prohibitively expensive...
social earthquake n.— «We are producing enormous stress within our ecological and social systems that creates the possibility of what I call social earthquakes; the probability is going up of major system discontinuity and we’re acting as...
hindcast v.— «How do you demonstrate the accuracy of such a computer model without waiting for the next “big one?” Rundle says they do this by taking these models through past events, including the great San Francisco...
earthquake lights n.pl.— «Piccardi explained that frictional heating, electron emissions, luminescence resulting from sound, and electrical charge changes that momentarily turn rocks into semiconductors all can result in what he and the U...