The brittleness of the magma may help explain why the seismic jolts called long-period oscillations are indicators of an eruption, said Dr. Bernard Chouet, a geophysicist at the Geological Survey.
Seismic jolts — called bumps or bounces in the language of miners — are often caused by compression of coal pillars and are most common in the deepest mines, like Crandall, where the pillars hold the most weight.
"Jerk" called up yank, jolt, tug and twitch.
But some thought the bombing might provide the jolt to call a halt to the bloodshed.
The jolt — which he called slosh, or slop — came mainly on surface streets and on-ramps when gears were shifting at low speeds.
That figure, called the "jolt score," dipped to 8.7 this year from 9.5 in 1998.
Mr. Tito, the world's first paying space tourist, called the jolt back to Earth a "soft landing" from "paradise," but, gravity-deprived, he could barely stand up during his first minutes back.
Mr. Merkin, a prominent philanthropist and the founder of several hedge funds, including one called Ascot Partners, jolted his clients on Thursday with a letter announcing that "substantially all" of that fund's $1.8 billion in assets were invested with Mr. Madoff.
The cluster of drivers with low feasibility and low desirability is called Potential Jolts, and the cluster of drivers with high feasibility and high desirability is called Significant Impactors.
Fill the other bottle with UMB 3. Combine the two in your inventory to get a brownish mixture called V-Jolt, which is equal to UMB 20.
