Schoolkids Jump-Start a Quake in Britain
From Times Wire Reports
About 1 million British schoolchildren succeeded in causing an earthquake, jumping up and down simultaneously in an unusual scientific experiment.
Thousands of schools throughout Britain were asked to send children outside at 11 a.m. to jump up and down for a minute.
Organizers of the Giant Jump event, held to mark Science Year, said it had been a success.
“We got some kind of result at every single seismometer around the country,” Nigel Pain, director of Science Year, said in London.
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