- Earthquake
Earthquake (born Nathaniel Martin Stroman May 29, 1963 in Washington, D.C.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He performed a half-hour HBO special as part of the series "One Night Stand", which first aired on August 26, 2005. He also had a small role in Kevin Smith's film "Clerks II", released in July 2006. He has a recurring role as Chris' Uncle Mike, on Everybody Hates Chris. - John Tenta
John Anthony Tenta (June 22, 1963 - June 7, 2006) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake. - Bob Burns
Bob Burns (born April 5, 1968) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. Burns was born in Mission Hills, California. He attended college at Cal State Northridge and was a member of the golf team. He won All-American honors his junior year, and was the individual medalist at the 1990 NCAA Division II Championship. He turned pro in 1991 and joined the PGA Tour in 1994. During Burns' first month on the PGA Tour, … - Bill McGuire
Professor Bill McGuire, is a professor of Volcanology at University College London and is widely accepted as one of Britain's leading volcanologists. His main interests include monitoring volcanoes and global geophysical events. One of McGuire's main research points is the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano in Wyoming. McGuire has appeared on many TV shows including "Horizon", one of the BBCs most popular and successful "Science & Nature" programmes, … - Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg was a German-born seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude. Gutenberg was born in Darmstadt, Germany and obtained his Doctorate in Physics from University of Göttingen in 1911. His advisor was Emil Wiechert. - Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng (78 - 139 AD) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. He had extensive knowledge of mechanics and gears, applying this knowledge to several of his known inventions. According to historian Joseph Needham, Zhang Heng was noted in his day for being able to "make three wheels rotate as if they were one" ("neng ling san lun du zhuan ye")". - Hidetsugu Aneha
is a former Japanese first-class architect and builder accused of falsifying structural data regarding the earthquake resistance of various condominiums and hotels. Aneha was born in Osato, Miyagi Prefecture in 1957 and graduated from the construction program at Furukawa Technical High School in 1976. Instead of attending university, he joined an Osaka-based general contractor firm. In 1984, Aneha established an architect's office in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. - Iben Browning
Born in 1918, Iben Browning graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1937. He majored in both math and physics, and earned an M.A. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1947, followed by a doctorate of philosophy degree the following year at the same school. His doctorate was in zoology with minors in genetics and bacteriology. He wrote four books, held 90 patents, and served as a climatologist and business consultant. Dr. - Charles Francis Richter
Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985), was an American seismologist, born in Hamilton, Ohio. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. He first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at California Institute of Technology, California, USA. - Louis Turi
Louis Turi is a French astrologer who has been credited with startlingly accurate predictions about world events. Turi was born and raised in Provence, France. Following four alleged UFO experiences, he was influenced to re-kindle Nostradamus' methods of Divine Astrology and spent many years reviving the Seer's rare cabalistic healing method. In 1976, he graduated from the Royal School of Music in London with the highest distinction. - Mervyn Leroy
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. - E-A-Ski
E-A-Ski (born Shon Adams) is a gangsta rapper/producer from Oakland, California working in couple with CMT. Once he joined the In-a-minuteNo-Limit family and was 15 of the first TRU along with Master P, King George, Big Ed & Rally Ral. His first album, "1 Step Ahead Of Yall", was released in 1992. In 1998 he released his second album, "Earthquake", led by the single "Showdown", and featuring Ice Cube, Ice-T, Dr. Dre, Spice 1, Jayo Felony, … - Edith Irvine
Lizzie Edith Irvine American photographer who documented the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. She was born in Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California to Thomas Hanna Irvine and Mary Irene (Hills) Irvine. Her father was a gold miner. Edith’s grandfather, William Irvine, was the youngest in a family of nine children, all born in Ireland. In 1846 he immigrated to New York with his older brother, James. - Smith Dharmasaroja
Smith Dharmasaroja is a Thai government official. In 1998, while serving as a meteorologist, he predicted that an earthquake and tsunami "is going to occur for sure." He advocated tsunami warning systems, but was not taken seriously. After the tsunami of December 2004, which killed over 200,000 people, he was recalled from retirement and charged with development of Thai and regional warning systems. - Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder. Stephen's interests are: earthquakes, cars, and architecture, in that order. Stephen Wiltshire was born April 24 1974 to West Indian parents in London, England. He was mute and at the age of three was diagnosed as an autistic. The same year his father died in a motorcycle accident. - Hugo Benioff
Hugo Benioff (1899-1968) was a seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. After graduating from Pomona College in 1921, Benioff began his career with the idea of being an astronomer and worked for a time at Mount Wilson Observatory, but when he found that astronomers work at night and sleep in the daytime, he quickly switched to seismology. - Albert Whitlock
Albert J. Whitlock was an English motion picture matte artist best known for his work with Disney and Universal Studios. - Alexander Golitzen
Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Washington, where he achieved a degree in architecture. He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, … - Gavin Hewitt
Gavin Hewitt became a Special Correspondent for BBC News at the beginning of 2000. Since then he has reported on many of the major stories at home and abroad. In 2005 he covered the tsunami and the earthquake in Pakistan. He also reported from New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina where he and his team bought a boat and managed to rescue a family of five. Gavin was also one of the main reporters on the London bombings on 7 July 2005, … - Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood (1859 in Toronto, Canada - October 30 1953 in San Francisco, California) is considered an American botanist, since her life after age 14 was in the USA. From age twenty to thirty, she was a teacher in Denver, Colorado and taught herself botany. In 1890 she assumed a post in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Eastwood was given a position as joint Curator of the Academy with Katherine Brandegee in 1892. - Warner Baxter
Warner Baxter (March 29, 1889 - May 7, 1951) was an American actor. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he moved to San Francisco, California when he was nine. Following the 1906 earthquake, he and his family lived in a tent for two weeks. By 1910 Baxter was in vaudeville, and from there began acting on the stage. Warner Baxter began as an extra in 1918 and quickly rose to become a star. He had his first starring role in 1921, … - John J. Clague
John J. Clague PhD FRSC is an award-winning Canadian authority in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences. He is a Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University and an Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada. Clague was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, President of the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group and Vice President of International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). - Lloyd Gough
Lloyd Gough (September 21, 1907 - July 23, 1984) was an American theater, film, and television actor. Born in New York City, New York, Gough was noted as a character actor who specialised in supporting roles. His films include "The Babe Ruth Story" (1947), "Roseanne McCoy" (1949), "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), "Storm Warning" (1951), "Tony Rome" (1967), and "Earthquake" (1974). - Simon Levay
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is also the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and extraterrestrial life. - George Murdock
George Murdock (born June 25, 1930), also known as Eric Rush, is an American actor. Known for frequently playing judges, (for instance, Judge Julius Hoffman in West Coast and Chicago stage productions of "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" and in an adaptation for BBC Radio), he also performed the role of "Big Daddy" in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with The Arizona Theater Company during the 1988 season. Among his most famous characters for movies and TV are Dr. - Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 - August 23, 2006) was a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, along with her colleague Bruce Heezen, co-discovered the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, a line of undersea mountains that runs through Earth's oceans, and mapped the features of the entire ocean floor. - Philip H. Lathrop
Philip H. Lathrop (October 22 1912-April 12 1995) was an American cinematographer for such films as "The Driver" (1978), "Earthquake" (1974), "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965), "The Americanization of Emily" (1964) and "Swashbuckler (1976)". He was also cinematographer for several Blake Edwards' films, including "The Pink Panther", where he can be seen in a brief cameo as a police officer chasing a woman in an elevator. - Keith McCready
Keith McCready (born April 9, 1957, Elmhurst, Illinois, USA) is an American professional pool player, nicknamed "Earthquake". At one time considered among the top players in America, McCready has been a traveling tournament competitor and notorious hustler since the 1970s. From 2003 to 2006, McCready was a contributing writer to "InsidePOOL Magazine" and remains a pro competition contender, who enjoys comedically interacting with the audience. - Alan Vint
Alan Richard Vint (November 11, 1944 - August 16, 2006) was an American character actor. Vint was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He appeared in a number of supporting roles during the 1970s in films such as "Badlands" (1973), "Macon County Line" (1974), and "Earthquake." He also made guest appearances on such television series as "Police Story," "Emergency!", "Hawaii Five-O", and "Baretta". - Raymundo Punongbayan
Dr. Raymundo Santiago Punongbayan (1937 - 2005) was the former director of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). He served from 1983 to 2002. Punongbayan became popular after handling two well-known calamities, the July 16, 1990, Luzon earthquake and the 1991 Pinatubo eruption. - Louis Godin
Louis Godin (February 28, 1704 - September 11, 1760) was a French astronomer. Godin was a member with Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Bouguer of the expedition sent to Peru in 1735 to determine the length of a degree of the meridian in the neighbourhood of the equator. This would also determine whether the earth's diameter were greater at the equator than at the poles, as had been conjectured by Isaac Newton. As a result, he spent several years in South America, … - James Basevi
James Basevi (1890 - 1962) was a British born art director and special effects expert. He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films. After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department, helping to create the earthquake scene in "San Francisco" (1936). He also worked on the storm sequence in John Ford's "The Hurricane" for 20th Century Fox. - Galo Plaza
Galo Plaza Lasso was president of Ecuador from September 1, 1948 to August 31, 1952, and secretary general of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) from 1968 to 1975. He was the ambassador from Ecuador to the United States from 1944 to 1946 and signed the charter of the United Nations (the UN) in 1945. Plaza was born in New York City in 1906 at the Marlton House during the exile of his father, the general and ex-president Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez. - Satyros
Satyros or Satyrus was an Ancient Greek architect of the 4th century BC. Along with Pythis, he designed the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After Mausolus, satrap of Caria in southwest Anatolia died, at 353 BC, his widow, Artemisia II of Caria, built a huge marble tomb - completed about 350 BC - in his memory at Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey). - Carlos Seixas
José António Carlos de Seixas was a Portuguese composer, the son of the cathedral organist, Francisco Vaz and Marcelina Nunes. When he was fourteen, he succeeded his father as organist in 1718 and two years later moved to Lisbon, where he gave harpsichord lessons and met Domenico Scarlatti, who lived in Portugal, from 1721 to 1728. It is claimed that when the king's son, Dom António, arranged for Scarlatti to give Seixas harpsichord lessons, … - Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne (March 5, 1969) is a British actor on film, television and radio. He is also a photographer. Blackthorne broke into acting via television commercials in England. His breakthrough commercial in the UK came in the Grim Reaper commercial for Virgin Atlantic, which was hugely successful. Numerous radio commercials followed. Blackthorne's first silver screen success was as Captain Andrew Russell in the Oscar-nominated Bollywood movie, "Lagaan". - Hadiqa Kiyani
Hadiqa Kiyani (Urdu: حدیقہ کیانی is one of the most famous Pakistani female pop stars. She holds a Masters degree in Psychology. Hadiqa has held several concerts all over the world. She was the first person to adopt an earthquake victim child - E. Preston Ames
E. Preston Ames (1906 - 1983) first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a draftsman working on "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director. In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Ames won 2 Oscars (for "An American in Paris" in 1951 and "Gigi" in 1958) and was nominated an additional six times. Among the highlights of his career were creating the mystical town of "Brigadoon" in 1954, … - Jawad Ahmad
Jawad Ahmad is a Muslim Pakistani Singer and is considered by some Pakistanis as the best one in the country. Jawad first captured Pakistan's attention as a person who called attention to the transcendental existence of God through the song "Allah Meray Dil kay Andar" which most say showed a way to inner peace. He has published many albums and when the chaotic earthquake in Pakistan struck, he sang at many fundraisers and supported rebuilding his country. - Aelia Eudoxia
Aelia Eudoxia (d. 6 October 404) was the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius. The daughter of Bauto, a Frankish "magister militum" serving in the Western Roman army during the 380s, Eudoxia owed her marriage to the youthful Emperor Arcadius on 27 April 395 to the intrigues of the eunuch of the palace, Eutropius. She had very considerable influence over her husband, …
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