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. Quickly, he leapt into a doorframe and waited until the earthquake passed. "It was a good shake," Geballe says. "We realized immediately that we had to go back up the mountain."
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