:27:02
including the present sites
of Los Angles and San Diego
:27:07
will be an Arctic island
approaching the Aleutian Trench.
:27:14
North on the fault line stands
a great and beautiful city-
:27:18
San Francisco.
:27:24
In 1 906, a powerful earthquake
and resulting fire
:27:28
leveled this city.
:27:30
Since, the stresses
have steadily accumulated
:27:33
in the fault
:27:35
Yet, when the San Andreas
:27:36
launches another
great earthquake
:27:38
San Francisco need not die.
:27:42
ln our new awareness
of Earth's forces
:27:44
we have designed our buildings
:27:46
to withstand
the greatest of earthquakes.
:27:49
Already, a new science has taken
the first promising steps
:27:53
in predicting
and controlling earthquakes.
:27:58
Our new theories
of plate tectonics
:28:01
have begun to yield
a harvest of benefits.
:28:04
They have focused our search
for minerals and petroleum.
:28:11
We have only begun to tap
the immense sources of energy
:28:14
that underlie the earth.
:28:16
Today, lceland heats its entire
capital of Reykjavik
:28:21
from thermal wells
:28:22
tapping the fires
of the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
:28:28
ln time, we may learn to harness
the inexhaustible furnaces
:28:31
of the interior of our planet
:28:35
The processes of genesis
continue.
:28:40
The Atlantic widens.
:28:44
Africa fractures.
:28:49
The Alps grow.
:28:52
A new Thera rises.
:28:56
The voyages of the continents
continue.