"Ils ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux."

Etienne de la Boétie, Discours de la Servitude Volontaire [~1553]

"Je veux qu'on soit sincère et qu'en homme d'honneur
On ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du cœur."

Molière, Le Misanthrope I, 1 [1666]

Emile A. Okal

Field survey of the 1946 Aleutian tsunami in the Marquesas:
Interview of a witness, 31 July 2000.
Detailed caption here.

Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University

Telephone: [+1-847] 491-3238

FAX: [+1-847] 491-8060

Electronic Mail: emile "AT" earth.northwestern.edu

Postal address: Evanston, IL 60208-2150, USA
Street Address: Locy Hall
1850 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60201, USA Coordinates:

Altitude: 42.0515 North
87.6747 West
181 m

I am now an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University. My degrees are from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (M.S., 1972), and the California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1978). After teaching for 32 years at Northwestern, I remain active in research and keep advising continuing graduate students in Seismology and other aspects of Geophysics.

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Le Corbeau et le Renard

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Человек есть существо, ко всему привыкающее и я думаю, что это лучшее его определение.

Ф. М. ДОСТОЕВСКИЙ, Записки из мëртвого дома.

Telephone:	[+1-847] 491-3238
FAX:	[+1-847] 491-8060
Electronic Mail:	emile "AT" earth.northwestern.edu

Postal address:	Evanston, IL 60208-2150, USA
Street Address:	Locy Hall 1850 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60201, USA	Coordinates: Altitude:	42.0515 North 87.6747 West 181 m