Seismology and geodesy showcased during Capitol Hill exhibit

Seismology and Space-based Geodesy

Capitol Hill Mass Murder Case

In the early morning of March 25, 2006, 28-year-old Kyle Huff shot eight young men and women, six of them fatally, at a rave after-party on East Republican Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle. The gunman, a transplant fromMontana, then committed suicide just as the police arrived on the scene. Because of the perpetrator’s suicide, there was no need for a detailed investigation leading...

The 2007 Pisco, Peru, earthquake (M8.0): seismology and geodesy

S U M M A R Y We investigate the 2007 Pisco, Peru, earthquake (M8.0) using seismological and geodetic data. Analysis of teleseismic records indicates that the earthquake is characterized by a steadily increasing moment rate, with the maximum occurring between about 55 and 70 s and the associated slip occurring about 40 km south of the epicentre. We combine InSAR data from L-band (ALOS) and C-ba...

Seismology and geodesy of the sun: Low-frequency oscillations.

The hourly averages of the solar ellipticity measured from June 13 to Sept. 17, 1966, are analyzed for indications of solar oscillations with periods in excess of 2 hr nu < 0.5 hr(-1). Nothing significant is found for frequencies nu > 0.1 hr(-1) but for lower frequencies the power spectrum shows a very complex structure containing about 20 strong narrow peaks. The complexity is illusionary. The...

The Environmental Lobbying Games: Who Plays It on Capitol Hill and How.

MAST-CELL MEDIATORS, including histamine, exert a variety of pharmacological effects, which can be explained by assuming two kinds of receptors, designated Hi and H2 (Rocklin et al., 1979). H2 receptors have been shown on e.g. T lymphocytes, their function being suppressed by histamine. In two recent papers (Osband et al., 1981; Gifford et al., 1981) cimetidine, an H2receptor antagonist, was sh...