"Let's hope this is not a foreshock of something bigger to come,
which is certainly a possibility" SYDNEY, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The
powerful earthquake that struck New Zealand was unusual in that a big
event on one fault may have immediately triggered a big event on a
second fault, experts said on Monday. An earthquake of magnitude 7.8
pummelled central New Zealand at 12.02 a.m., killing at least two
people, damaging roads and buildings and setting off hundreds of strong
aftershocks. "When an earthquake occurs you are changing the stress
field immediately, and if there was one fault that was pretty close to
breaking, the energy from an earthquake can just tip it over the edge so
that may have been ...
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to back down from his
campaign promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary
Clinton and her private email server during his first post-election
interview with 60 Minutes. Trump did not rule out following through with
his threat but softened his statements against his campaign rival. "I'm
going to think about it," he said to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley
Stahl. "Um, I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on
healthcare, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a
really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill.
We want to have a great immigration bill. And I want to focus on—all of
these ...