In the games industry Dan designed levels for games such as Quake and Counter Strike under the pseudonym Inflict.
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The quake, which struck just a few weeks after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was felt as far afield as Ilfracombe, Birmingham and southwest Ireland.
Frank Lloyd Wright received credit for designing the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, to withstand the quake, although in fact the building was damaged by the shock.
12 seconds after the main quake, an aftershock of ML 6.0 occurred, centred on present-day Emei Township, Hsinchu County.
Focşani, a city 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galați, the site of the German submarine base, also suffered severely; and Giurgiu, the principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories completely destroyed.
The United States Geological Survey lists the 1954 quake among the deadliest earthquakes in history.
The quake's hypocenter was located at a depth of 5 km near the town of Los Amates in the department of Izabal.
Punitaqui was practically demolished by the quake, which reached an VIII-magnitude seismic Mercalli and a magnitude of 7.9 to 8.1 on the Richter scale.
The city of Kashiwazaki and the villages of Iizuna and Kariwa registered the highest seismic intensity of a strong 6 on Japan's shindo scale, and the quake was felt as far away as Tokyo.
On April 25, 2008, the quake of largest magnitude occurred, registering 4.7 on the Richter scale and causing damage in the immediate area around the epicenter, including destroying 200 feet of a wooden flume suppling water from the Highland Ditch, also known as the Highland Ditch flume.
The powerful 30-second offshore quake was felt in Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and as far as Cancún in Mexico.
In Funabashi city an elderly resident suffered a fatal heart attack during the quake, and a falling object caused one minor injury in Kisarazu city.
The town of Mashkel was close to the quake's epicentre, and around 85 percent of the city's buildings were demolished.
The Quake was previously a member of the NORPAC and began play in the AWHL for the 2012-2013 season.
Phillips Brooks' O Little Town of Bethlehem (1867) has the lines "O morning stars together, proclaim the holy birth, / And praises sing to God the King, and peace to men on earth!" The originally German carol Silent Night has "Shepherds quake at the sight; / Glories stream from heaven afar, / Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!"
Bristol Island, a five mile long ice-covered quake-prone chain of volcanos in the South Sandwich Islands, was also named in honor of Hervey by Captain James Cook.
The 20 second to 50 second wave in the 1990 quake that developed a new east-west sub-fault was so strong that it terminated disastrously at the city of Baguio in Benguet, Cordillera.
During the rescue and post-operations of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, heavy equipment needed to be transported to deal with the dangerous formation of quake-lakes located in extremely difficult terrain, particularly at Tangjiashan mountain, which was accessible only by foot or air.
The initial series was the first complete synthesis of perspectively-correct texture mapping, and formed the mathematical basis for many important game rasterizers, including Michael Abrash's seminal rasterizer for the landmark 3D title Quake.
Iikka Keränen, author of several Doom WADs and later Quake mods, was hired by Ion Storm to create levels for Anachronox and Daikatana, and by Looking Glass Studios to create levels for Thief II: The Metal Age.
The Great Nicobar and Car Nicobar islands were the worst hit among all the islands because of their proximity to the quake and relatively flat terrain.
Mark Surfas saw the need for hosting and distribution of these mods and created PlanetQuake, a Quake-related hosting and news site.
The company also designed trademark characters like Cap'n Crunch, King Vitaman, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals, and made numerous commercials for these products.
By 1975, the label had an artist roster consisting of Earth Quake, Jonathan Richman (with and without the Modern Lovers), The Rubinoos and Greg Kihn.
He is also responsible for programming on Diablo II, the development of the Battle.net game server network, and the Quake 2 mod Loki's Minions Capture the Flag.
As well as supporting its own file-format, Milkshape 3D is able to export to morph target animation like the ones in the Quake model formats or to export to skeletal animations like Half-Life, Genesis3D, Unreal, etc.
While the Action Plan talks about assistance for survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, there is no mention of Chinese activists who have been detained since last June for pursuing the issue of shoddy construction in schools that collapsed during the quake.
The quake damaged virtually all buildings in Charleston, creating sand volcanoes by the city, cracked a pier on the Cairo Rail Bridge and toppled chimneys in St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Gadsden, Alabama and Evansville, Indiana.
Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, one of the seismologists who have taken an active interest in the topic, coined the term genpatsu-shinsai (原発震災), from the Japanese words for "nuclear power" and "quake disaster" to express the potential worst-case catastrophe that could ensue.
Using the graphic engine of existing video games such as Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Half-Life they transformed the museum architecture into violent first-person shooter games where the museum visitor could wander around inside a virtual version of the museum killing and blowing up master pieces.
The quake left 8 people dead, 360 injured and 59,913 homeless, concentrating most of those in the provinces of Elqui and Limarí.
Aspyr Media published and released Quake 4 for Mac OS X on 5 April 2006, initially only for PowerPC based Macs, but then later as a universal binary compatible with both PowerPC- and x86-based Macs.
At this point it was renamed to QuArK, which stands for "Quake Army Knife", named so in reference to the game engine series it supported, the Quake engines, and for Swiss Army knife, because it could not only edit maps, but included a model editor and texture browser as well.
Rocket Arena 3, an unofficial game modification for first-person shooter Quake III: Arena
Since it runs on Windows 7, multiple games have been already played for demonstration such as Quake, WoW, and Defense of the Ancients.
With the immense multiplayer success of Quake, exemplified by QuakeCon and the award of a brand new Ferrari 308 in a Microsoft sponsored tournament in 1997, players were looking for ways to gain advantages in online play.
According to a test of Tom's Hardware of January 21, 1998, it could perform roughly a third of the performance of a NVidia RIVA 128 or 40% less than an ATI Rage Pro in terms of frames per second in Direct3D benchmarks and simply couldn't play Quake due its lack of OpenGL support.
Along with Spasim and Maze War, Snipes was the precursor of many popular multiplayer games such as Doom and Quake.
In early 2005, Carpinelli conducted an online investigation into the source of allegations that in the aftermath of an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal Catholic priests roamed city streets, hanging those they thought responsible for the quake.
The first quake occurred on April 21 and had a magnitude of 7.6.
With Diary of a Camper being widely acknowledged as the first ever Quake movie (and, by extension, the first ever machinima piece), the importance of Ranger Gone Bad 2 has become lost on many.
In 2013, former Quake player Jacob Doty signed a three year deal with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.