II. Multiple Choice

1. Why does the city of San Francisco want to license psychics?

   1. So inspectors can decide which ones are the most accurate.

   2. To determine whether the rooms they use meet sanitation requirements

   3. To make it easier to track down scam artist fortunetellers.

   4. To drive them underground.

2. Why do some psychics, spiritual advisors and fortunetellers tell clients they are cursed?

   1. They are trying to scare them.

   2. They want them to pay them a lot of money to remove the curse.

   3. None of the above.

   4. Both a and b.

3. Why do some psychics show clients grapefruit with blood or a small skull in it?

   1. They want them to be afraid of grapefruit.

   2. They use it as proof of a curse on the client or a loved one.

   3. They use it to prove the client's energy needs a boost.

   4. They use it to prove they should wash their fruit before eating.

4. What result does one card-reader think licensing regulations will have?

   1. Scam psychics and fortunetellers will be more secretive and harder to find.

   2. Scam psychics and fortunetellers will be easier to find and prosecute.

   3. Clients will now be in no danger of being cheated out of large sums of money.

   4. Psychics and fortunetellers will move out of San Francisco.

Text 5. Earthquake Science

From a news story by

CNN San Francisco Reporter Rusty Dornin

When the earth shook here on March 26th 2000, it helped geologists to figure out how the earth around Seattle would shake during the real thing less than a year later.

When Seattle’s Kingdome was demolished with explosives, more than 200 seismic recorders caught every rattle and roll.

Tom Brocher of the U.S. Geological Survey says: "You can see the red waves travelling away from the Kingdome."

The areas that shook the worst then also shook the worst when the 6 point eight (on the Richter scale) Nisqually earthquake hit.

"We shouldn’t be surprised to see damage at Boeing field and at the port of Seattle where we did see damage, because in both of those areas the ground shook longer and harder than other parts of Seattle."

It’s what’s known as a slab quake (located) 36 miles below the surface where the Juan de Fuca plate slab is diving underneath the North American plate. Geologists believe the plate bent, causing it to crack, sending shock waves to the surface.

Tom Brocher says, "As soon as we knew it was a deep earthquake- that it was this type of earthquake- we immediately put out the word that we should expect very few aftershocks."

There were only 4. In San Francisco's Loma Prieta earthquake here in 1989 which was closer to the surface, there were 120 aftershocks. The fact that "deep-focus" earthquakes have fewer aftershocks still puzzles geologists.

Brocher says, "What we can tell people is you’re not going to have these (aftershocks). What we can’t tell them why. And that’s a research issue."

Geologists say the Nisqually quake originated from almost the same spot as the 1949 quake there, and had the same damage patterns. There were fewer landslides this year because of the lack of rain.

Over the next year and half, researchers want to set off explosives at the surface near Seattle. Aimed at the slab 37 miles below. The waves will then bounce off the slab and reflect back to the surface giving information about where the plate is and how it’s moving.

So, before the earth moves again, geologists will have an idea which places might be destined to shake the hardest.

Note: Each number on the Richter scale represents movement 10 times larger than the previous number.