Orna Klement's chocolate banana shake would be just the thing after any energetic activities, and indeed, the promise of one of these after a run helped my exercise resolve no end.
Lastly, the displacement of the building due to the shaking would be translated into a "damage factor" to estimate the relative damage to the building based on wavelet analysis.
The L.A. Basin and the San Fernando Valley would be hit hard because the shaking would be trapped by soft soils in the valley and basin. .
Information about where the shaking would be highest in a major quake is particularly important for emergency response and urban planning needs, said Ellis Stanley, director of emergency services for the city of Los Angeles.
In metropolitan Los Angeles, the worst shaking would be east of downtown, starting where the 60 and 605 freeways meet, and traveling along the San Gabriel River as it flows through Whittier Narrows and southward to the 91 Freeway near Long Beach.
Even just one packed 10-car train, with about 150 people per car, derailing at high speed from shaking would be a disaster — during rush hour, as many as 40 BART trains out of 64 on the system are traveling as fast as 70 mph, a BART official said.
A study of how earthquake waves from the San Andreas fault travel through different types of Southern California soil marks what scientists say is a promising first step in an ambitious effort to pinpoint neighborhoods and even individual city blocks where the shaking would be most severe.
However, I suggest that some shaking up would be beneficial.
For a politician who has never passed up a hand that might be shaken, this would be the ultimate campaign.
Wenger, who took over at Arsenal in 1996, believes such a radical shake-up would be hard to implement.
