 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||
  JUNE 2013
Click the cover to read the complete digital edition
 Features
  Departments
All things to all people
Art
Community
Dining
Editor's Note
Education
End Note
Take 5
the guide
upcoming events
June 18, 5p. Meet the winners of the competition and watch them receive cash prizes and ribbons for categories such as Best of Show for Adult, Best...
June 20, 11a. From the most popular legend of the 1001 Arabian Nights, watch as Aladdin thwarts the evil sorcerer, discovers the magical lamp,...
June 21, 6p. A fun night featuring live local bands Wild Card and the Joey Vitale Trio followed by DJ Ultra. Magicians, fortune tellers and...
{more...}
|
An earthquake? Here? Naw!
by Andrew Kiraly | posted April 19, 2011
Longtime anti-Yucca activist Peggy Maze Johnson considers the Fukushima disaster -- and breathes a qualified sigh of relief that nuke waste isn't being shoveled into Yucca Mountain right about now -- you know, aka that ancient volcano in an earthquake zone: I asked the scientist employed by our Department of Energy what could happen if there was a huge earthquake. “Not to worry,” said the scientist, “Yucca Mountain has been engineered to withstand a 6.5 earthquake”! As a native San Franciscan I had to ask what would happen if there was a 7.5 or even and 8.5 quake. “That won’t happen”, said he.
[Friend Desert Companion on Facebook! Follow Desert Companion on Twitter!]
Tweet |
 
 
 
Pick up your Desert Companion today at one of these Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf or Jamba Juice locations.
Also available at Clark County and Henderson libraries.
|
