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Published online 18 October 2006 |
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| doi:10.1038/news061016-10
Corrected online: 19 October 2006
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Telescopes ride out Hawaiian quake
Multimillion-dollar facilities escape mostly unscathed.
On a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii, astronomer Tom Geballe had just wrapped up his graveyard shift at the giant, 8-metre Gemini telescope. He had retired to the off-site dormitory and was settling in to watch some American football when he felt the ground begin to move.
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