To the Editors:
While reading your cover story on earthquakes [Sept. 1], I was shaken by a small earthquake (4.4 on the Richter scale), the first to occur in Birmingham in 18 years. Your article was certainly TIMEly, and the special effects were outstanding.
Frank C. Galloway Jr.
Birmingham
The "inexorable movement of opposing plates" poses a serious political question. What do we do, 30 million years hence, when Los Angeles gets up around Vancouver?
I think we should make the Canadians take it.
Stephen B. Maurer
Princeton, N.J.
Even after reading your description of a...