Instrumental study of the New Hampshire earthquakes of December, 1940

ABSTRACT Astudy of original records and bulletin readings for two strong earthquakes in the Ossipee Mountains district of southeastern New Hampshire in December, 1940, gave for both φ = 43 ° 50 ′ N λ = 71 ° 1 7 ′ W S started from a depth of approximately 35 km., and P at the same time from a depth of 15 km. The second shock was multiple. Times at the focus were: 1940 December 20 d 07 h 27 m 26 s 24 d 13 h 43 m 45 s 47 s 57 s The velocities observed, in km/sec., were: P1+26.44S1+23.82P37.30S34.02Pn8.44Sn4.43 Mechanism at the focus probably differed from that of earthquakes which involve surface faulting, but is not discussed in detail in this paper. First motion from the second earthquake was reversed from that of the first at near-by stations. No foreshocks preceded the first earthquake; there was a small one just before the second; and there were only ten after-shocks, the last one occurring on February 12, 1941. The Richter magnitude was at least 6 for the first and slightly greater for the second main shock. From this the energy can be computed as 1020 ergs or 7.4 × 1012 foot-pounds. This ranks both shocks as potentially destructive. They were felt to a distance of 350 miles, which means an area of potential perceptibility of the order of 385,000 square miles.

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Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500012985 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 204-205

Author(s):

Megan Cleary

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Supreme Court ◽

New Hampshire ◽

Third Parties ◽

State Supreme Courts ◽

Recovered Memories ◽

Supreme Courts ◽

Repressed Memory ◽

University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

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