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18 Earthquakes: Predicting
Seismologists are in the midst of a renaissance in reading the planet's signs, to try to forecast when and where an earthquake will strike.
Susan E. Hough
Plus! Warning: Tsunami
24 Monitoring a Restless
Volcano: The 2004 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Last October, Mount St. Helens in Washington awoke after 20 years of quiet, to the surprise of scientists. What will happen next is anyone's guess.
30 El Niño: Predicting
Cause and Effect
We are in the middle of an El Niño, but scientists have yet to work out all the complexities of the phenomenon to accurately predict when it will happen and how it will affect weather worldwide.
Marketing an Asteroid Threat
It is tough to tease out real threats and accurate science in a sea of publicity geared toward raising support for research programs.
Joseph Richard Gutheinz
8 NEWS NOTES
17 POLITICAL SCENE
42 ENERGY & RESOURCES
60 GEOLOGIC COLUMN