There's much leaping Sward's poetry, but each line, so to speak, steps on something solid.

Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's Collected Poems, 1957-2004 ( Black Moss Press, 2004 ) calls him, " in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries.

Sward's first book, Uncle Dog & Other Poems ( 1962 ), was published by Putnam & Co. in England.

Sward's father, Dr. Irving M. Sward, was a podiatrist and something of a mystic, combining his practice of Rosicrucianism with a study of the Kabbalah.

Garrison Keillor selected God is in the Cracks, one of the father and son poems and title piece of Sward's 2006 collection, for broadcast on his radio show " Writers Almanac.

Sward's five children include Cheryl Cox Macpherson, a Professor of Bioethics ; Kamala Joy, an environmental scientist ; Michael Sward, a contractor and builder ; Hannah Sward, administrative staff, Southwestern Law School ; and Nicholas Sward, Hyatt Hotel chef in Toronto.

*" Earthquake Collage ," " Pathways to the Past, Adventures in Santa Cruz County History, History Journal Number 6 ," Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA, April, 2009.

A geographic rivalry with the cross-bay American League Athletics has grown larger as a result of the two teams meeting in the 1989 World Series, nicknamed the " Battle of the Bay ," which Oakland swept ( and which was interrupted by the Loma Prieta Earthquake moments before Game 3 ).

The episode titles were " A Pea in the Ear ," " Invasion of the Italians ," " Looking for Snails " and " Earthquake.

* Earthquake McGoon: Billing himself as " the world's dirtiest wrassler ," the bearded, bloated McGoon first appeared in Li ' l Abner as a traveling exhibition wrestler in the late 1930s, and was reportedly partially based on real-life grappler Man Mountain Dean.

* In 1960, Dixieland trombonist Turk Murphy christened his San Francisco jazz club " Earthquake McGoon's ," in honor of the perennial Dogpatch villain.

" The 1923 Kanto Earthquake Re-evaluated Using a Newly Augmented Geodetic Data Set ," Journal of Geophysical Research.

Recent commissions include “ Earthquake !” a ballet that premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in April 2006 ; “ Little Shimmers ” for the TroMetrik ensemble, which premiered at ODC in San Francisco in April 2006 ; “ Daredevil ” for the ArrayMusic chamber ensemble, which premiered in Toronto in 2006 ; A concert-length sequence of works for orchestra and virtual worlds ( including " Canons for Wroclaw ," " Khaenoncerto ," " The Egg ," and others ) celebrating the 1000th birthday of the city of Wroclaw, Poland, premiered in 2000 ; A triple concerto, " The Navigator Tree ," commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum, premiered in 2000 ; and " Mirror / Storm ," a symphony commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, which premiered in 1998.

All songs were written by Jason Stollsteimer, except " Blame Game " and " Earthquake ," which were co-written by Stollsteimer and Blum.

This Series is also known as the " Earthquake Series ", " Bay Bridge Series ", " BART Series ", and " Battle of the Bay ," as the two participant cities lie on opposite sides of San Francisco Bay, connected by the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) system.

" Review: Tokyo Rising: The City Since the Great Earthquake by Edward Seidensticker ," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.

" When the match aired on WWF Superstars of Wrestling, footage of Earthquake landing on Damien was interrupted with cutaway shots to that show's " Events Center ," although the incident aired uninterrupted and uncensored during WWF Prime Time Wrestling the following week.

He was the author of the following Government publications: " Alaska Investigations ," " Hypsometry ," Elements of Chart Making ," Safeguard the Gateways of Alaska ," Earthquake Investigations in the United States ," and The Neglected Waters of the Pacific.

" In addition, he also was the author of the following ( unofficial ) papers: " Evolution of the National Chart ," Science and the Earthquake Perils ," and " Aerial Surveying.

The coverage of the Newcastle Earthquake in 1989 by the news team, led by Tony Briscoe, won the station a National Radio Award.

Other special assignments include all the visits of John Paul II to Latin America, the on-going news coverage of the murdered presidential Mexican candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, the Los Angeles Earthquake, the Federal Building Explosion in Oklahoma, the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, the LA fires, and the floods in the state of Tabasco, Mexico in 2007.

Earthquake shaking table | Shake-table testing of Earthquake engineering # Friction pendulum bearing | Friction Pendulum Bearings at EERCResearch for earthquake engineering means both field and analytical investigation or experimentation intended for discovery and scientific explanation of earthquake engineering related facts, revision of conventional concepts in the light of new findings, and practical application of the developed theories.

Those responsibilities include dam safety under the National Dam Safety Program Act ; disaster assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ; earthquake hazards reduction under the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 and further expanded by Executive Order 12699, regarding safety requirements for federal buildings and Executive Order 12941, concerning the need for cost estimates to seismically retrofit federal buildings ; emergency food and shelter under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 ; hazardous materials, under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 ;

In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.

Likewise, the northwest motion of the Pacific Plate creates significant compressional forces where the North American Plate stands in its way, creating the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, and to a lesser, but still significant, extent the Santa Cruz Mountains, site of the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.

In 1989, Bechtel repaired the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge after a 30 ft ( 9 m ) section collapsed as a result of the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Image: Cypress structure. jpeg | The Cypress Street Viaduct was an example of a double decker freeway in Oakland, California which collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and was later demolished.

The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of ' 89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5: 04 pm local time.

In 1989, hundreds of amateurs responded to the Loma Preita Earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area putting in over 3000 volunteer hours in the first week.

A hand-painted seal which used to be on display at the old Oakland State Building ( 1111 Jackson Street ) until its closure following the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 can today be seen just within the front entrance of the state building at 1304 O Street, Sacramento.

1989 Newcastle Earthquake Workers Club Collapse ( Rescue-Two ( 2 ) Rescue Squads responded immediately and subsequently 100 operators and support personnel to sustain 24 hour operations );

This line up supported Iggy Pop on his January, 1989 Australian Instinct tour at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney and the Newcastle Workers Club which collapsed later that year in the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake.

The Flirtations recorded Hi-NRG tracks such as " Earthquake " ( 1983 ), " Read All About It " ( 1986 ) and " Back On My Feet Again " ( 1989 ), the latter reuniting Viola with the Pearce sisters.

He also played in 2 World Series with the Padres in 1984 and the Giants in 1989 ( Earthquake Series ).

The album's liner notes contains a " Special dedication to the victims of the California Earthquake of 1989 and the victims of Hurricane Hugo ".

For obvious reasons, the 1989 World Series was also known as the Earthquake Series.

The teams contested the famous 1989 World Series, interrupted by the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Another round of extensive re-engineering followed the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, including the addition of diamond lane ramps and a huge girder flyover connecting the relocated northbound Nimitz with the northbound Eastshore Freeway ( which is technically I-80 eastbound and I-580 westbound ).

In his first match after signing on, a dark match on September 21, 1989, he was known as Earthquake Evans and managed by Slick.

" More than once, a wrestling feud was set up because of what occurred on " The Brother Love Show " ( including Hulk Hogan's feuds vs. Big Boss Man ( 1988 – 1989 ) and Earthquake ( 1990 ), and the Jake " The Snake " Roberts-Rick Martel feud from late 1990 to early 1991 ).

* 1989 Peabody Award for coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake

* Earthquake Weather, Moyer Bell Ltd, 1989, ISBN 978-0-918825-98-8