After that, the rupture mainly progressed to the southern part of the fault (the frame of 90 105 s), and the deeper part of the fault (the frames after 105 120 s).
In discussing the White House overview of United States strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan released last week, officials claimed progress in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, the heartland of the Taliban insurgency, but acknowledged flare-ups elsewhere in Afghanistan.
Government forces have made some limited progress around the southern edge of Aleppo in the north, and could use that as a springboard for further inroads into rebel-held terrain if they can marshal the resources.
That night, Wootten decided to take stock of the slow progress along the southern and central routes.
Preparations are in progress in the southern Russian city of Sochi, a favourite holiday destination, which will be hosting the Winter Olympics in 2014.
Recent progress under the aegis of the Southern Cone Initiative has been highly effective in Uruguay, Chile, most of Brazil, four provinces in Argentina, and one department in Paraguay [ 3, 4] but in other high-risk areas success has been more modest.
Despite the promise of futuristic space age progress, the Southern states remained locked in the system of racial segregation that had long been encoded in state legislation and enforced by often brutal violence.
Dawn Porter, meanwhile, won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking for Trapped, a harrowing documentary following the progress of southern reproductive health clinics as they struggle to provide care in the face of a hostile legal and political climate.
It can then progress freely to the Arab markets of the southern Gulf.All of this puts the UAE in difficulty.
And, as my colleague Justin Gillis explained in this blog earlier this year, the notion that it is offset by increases in Antarctic ice is belied by data showing that the northern melting during the summer, based on the total amount of ocean covered, is progressing far faster than the rate of the southern increase in ice.
