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The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 boxes (also called blocks or regions) contains the digits from 1 to 9 only one time each.
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1. Fairly large
6. Barrels per day (abbr.)
9. Cover the entirety of
13. Leafy appetizer
14. Showy ornament
15. Norse personification of old age
16. Athletes
17. Closes tightly
18. Attack via hurling items
19. Where the reserves stand
21. Sword
22. Begat
23. Damage another’s reputation
24. Northeast
25. Turf
28. For each
29. Hours (Spanish)
31. Western state
33. One who offers help
36. Flanks
38. A woolen cap of Scottish origin
39. Free from drink or drugs
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41. Tunnels
44. Mature
45. More dried-up
46. News organization
48. Steal something
49. Forms one’s public persona(abbr.)
51. Female fish eggs
52. Small petrel of southern seas
54. Edible starches
56. Historical
60. In a place to sleep
61. Horse grooms
62. Off-Broadway theater award
63. Chinese dynasty
64. Resembling a wing
65. Small projection on a bird’s wing
66. Of the Isle of Man
67. Derived unit of force (abbr.)
68. Plate for Eucharist
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1. Vipers
2. Ancient city in Syria 3. Slog 4. Emits coherent radiation 5. “Pollock” actor Harris 6. Bleated 7. Monetary units of Afghanistan 8. Tooth doctor 9. One who takes apart
10. Commoner
11. Beat poet Ginsberg
12. Cave deposit material
14. Home energy backup
17. Begets
20. Face part
21. Frocks
23. Hill or rocky peak
25. Giving the impression of dishonesty
26. About ear
27. Male parents
29. Popular grilled food
30. Vaccine developer
32. Not conforming
34. Polite address for women
35. 1970 U.S. environmental law
37. Astronomical period of 18 years
40. One who fights the government
42. Center for Excellence in Education
43. Watches discreetly
47. An electrically charged atom
49. Hymn
50. Arabic given name
52. Popular pie nut
53. City in Zambia
55. Species of cherry
56. John __, British writer
57. Be next to
58. Make angry
59. Give birth to a lamb or kid
61. Unhappy
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If a mountain fell in the wilderness . . .
Ned Rozell
Camped on an island in Southeast Alaska a few mornings ago, Sasha Calvey heard a commotion outside her tent.
“(On Aug. 10) at 5:45 a.m., I woke to a loud roar of rushing water,” the 25-year-old kayaker and outdoor educator said. “Then there was this massive tidal surge just inches away from our tent.”
Calvey and her two friends — on a summer-long paddling trip from Washington state to Glacier Bay in Alaska — watched in disbelief as the ocean crept up the shoreline more than 15 feet, carrying away many of their possessions.
“I saw my kayak spinning in a whirlpool,” Calvey said over the phone from Juneau, one day after her experience. She then watched her boat disappear with a receding wave.
Calvey’s kayak was the most vital piece of gear the ocean grabbed during a tsunami caused by a massive avalanche of rock into the ocean more than 30 miles away. Experts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute say the landslide-caused tsunami may be the largest one detected in Alaska during the last decade.
Calvey and her companions Billy White and Nick Heilgeist took stock of their situation after the waves subsided offshore of Harbor Island, where they were camped.
They were thankful they decided to pitch their threeperson tent in the forest well above the high-tide line. And though they had lost Calvey’s boat — along with a dry suit, boat paddles, a bear fence, stove and prescription sunglasses (among other things) — they had plenty of fresh water, warm clothes for all, four days of food and a radio.
The three decided no “mayday” call was merited but knew they were quite stuck without Calvey’s boat. They radioed their situation to anyone who might be monitoring a certain frequency. Within minutes, a boat captain answered the call. He transported them and their remaining gear to Alaska’s capital city of Juneau.
As well as a ride to Juneau, the crew of the private char-
ter yacht Blackwood provided the three with warm blankets, “a lovely breakfast and a wonderful lunch,” Calvey said.
About the same time the kayakers’ campsite was flooded, Christine Smith was cooking food for guests 30 miles away on a 65-foot ship upon which she and her husband Jeffrey provide eight-day adventures in Southeast Alaska.
The ship was in Endicott Arm, a finger of ocean reaching toward British Columbia.
“We have been anchoring there for 20 years,” Smith said by phone from the MV David B one day after the tsunami. “I had never seen water rushing over this sandbar while the tide was going out.”
Smith texted her neighbor and friend in Bellingham, Washington, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, who is a professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Caplan-Auerbach searched online for a possible seismic signal, one that might indicate a large mass had avalanched into the ocean nearby.
“What I love about Christine is that despite her not being a scientist, she totally told me to look for a landslide,” Caplan-Auerbach said over the phone from Bellingham.
Caplan-Auerbach, once a post-doctoral researcher at UAF who studies landslide seismicity, soon found the
dramatic squiggles of the landslide. She then looked for — and found — “little stuttering events” that preceded the much-larger shaking. Those precursors sometimes happen before a giant landslide, but not always.
Caplan-Auerbach relayed the information to Smith, who mentioned that heavy rains had pelted them for days, possibly lubricating a steep slope into catastrophic failure.
Seismic stations more than 600 miles away picked up the rumbling as a mountainside collapsed upon South Sawyer Glacier and into the ocean at the head of Tracy Arm, said Geophysical Institute researcher Ezgi Karasözen.
Karasözen applied a “landslide characterization algorithm” on the available data from Southeast Alaska seismic stations. She found it was potentially the largest landslide and tsunami in Alaska since Taan Fjord in 2015.
So far, the kayakers’ gear is the largest human loss associated with part of a mountain falling into the ocean (“with a very large possible volume of 30-290 million cubic meters,” according to Karasözen).
Also perhaps lost was the feeling of accomplishment one might get from paddling your kayak for a whole summer from Washington to Glacier Bay. Instead of achieving their entire goal, Calvey said she and her partners would end their trip in Juneau.
Calvey was happy to raise more than $10,000 along the way to start a youth kayaking group back home in Washington. She also values the notion of a few news stories upping awareness of rogue tsunamis.
Members of the Juneau ocean kayaking community have offered loans of gear to replace what the three kayakers lost. In deciding her near-future, however, Calvey remembered some advice.
“A mentor of mine told me once, ‘When nature tells you it’s time to stop, it’s time to stop.’”
This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.
Photo by Sasha Calvey.
Sasha Calvey and two friends were sleeping in the tent at the left when they woke up to the tsunami-driven ocean, which rose to the level of the log in the center of the photo.
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