The shaking earlier in the week turned out to be the foreshocks of the largest earthquake in the nation’s recorded history. In the end, the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than eighteen thousand people, devastated northeast Japan, triggered the meltdown at the Fukushima power plant, and cost an estimated two hundred and twenty billion dollars. Thirty minutes after Goldfinger first stepped outside, he watched the tsunami roll in, in real time, on a two-inch screen. One of them pulled out a cell phone and started streaming videos from the Japanese broadcasting station NHK, shot by helicopters that had flown out to sea soon after the shaking started. Almost immediately, though, it became extremely uncool, because Goldfinger and every other seismologist standing outside in Kashiwa knew what was coming. Now, Goldfinger realized as the shaking hit the four-minute mark, the planet was proving the Japanese Cassandra right.įor a moment, that was pretty cool: a real-time revolution in earthquake science. The presentation was met with polite applause and thereafter largely ignored. In 2005, however, at a conference in Hokudan, a Japanese geologist named Yasutaka Ikeda had argued that the nation should expect a magnitude 9.0 in the near future-with catastrophic consequences, because Japan’s famous earthquake-and-tsunami preparedness, including the height of its sea walls, was based on incorrect science. For decades, seismologists had believed that Japan could not experience an earthquake stronger than magnitude 8.4. Oh, shit, Goldfinger thought, although not in dread, at first: in amazement. His watch swept past the three-minute mark and kept going. He thought better of it, and lurched away. The base was lurching, too, back and forth a foot at a time, digging a trench in the yard. The building itself was base-isolated, a seismic-safety technology in which the body of a structure rests on movable bearings rather than directly on its foundation. The flagpole atop the building he and his colleagues had just vacated was whipping through an arc of forty degrees. The trees, still hung with the previous autumn’s dead leaves, were making a strange rattling sound. It was, Goldfinger thought, like driving through rocky terrain in a vehicle with no shocks, if both the vehicle and the terrain were also on a raft in high seas. The earth snapped and popped and rippled.
Nor, from the feel of it, was there ground on the ground. There was a chill in the air, and snow flurries, but no snow on the ground.
At a minute and a half, everyone in the room got up and went outside. Goldfinger, who is tall and solidly built, thought, No way am I crouching under one of those for cover. The seats in the conference room were small plastic desks with wheels. Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week. The earthquake was not particularly strong. The speaker at the lectern was wondering if he should carry on with his talk. The conference was wrapping up for the day.
#1080 civilization v background 64 Bit#
Windows 7 64 bit btw.When Goldfinger looked at his watch, it was quarter to three.
No luck there either.Īnyone have any ideas? If you need any information about my system please ask. Changing reso on the desktop to 1920X1080 then logging back in hoping that would allow me to set it to that reso in game. So what I tried doing was exiting the game and steam completely. When I go into Civ 5's options the largest it allows me to choose is 1360X768. Images look better, font looks more crisp and is the perfect size for me to read.
#1080 civilization v background 1080p#
However when I play newer games (Starcraft 2, Singularity to name a couple) in the graphics options I can set it to 1920X1080 and the input on my screen switches and says it's now in 1080p and the difference is noticeable. Now on my desktop I have the reso set to 1360X768 because if I got to 1920X1080 the screen looks really fuzzy and the font is hard to read. It has an HDMI out on it so I took my HDMI cord ran it from the gpu to the HDTV. My questions is this.I cannot get Civ 5 to run at 1920X1080. I tried the search feature to no avail and checked through the most recent posts and also no luck.
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