Their database was the vocabulary of 87 Indo-European languages. Atkinson and Gray looked at what linguists call cognates: words that are so similar in form and meaning, and so systematic in sound correspondences, that they must have a common origin.n the first place, if the Europeans, on the one hand, and the Indo-Iranians, on the other, had once lived together as agriculturists in Anatolia, they ought to have a common vocabulary for agricultural items, which unfortunately is not the case.
1994 Northridge earthquake. The 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST and had its epicenter in Reseda, a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. It had a duration of approximately 10â20 seconds.
Aftershocks of the Northridge quake. Since the 4:31 a.m. jolt that hit Los Angeles in 1994, we have gotten smarter about earthquakes and buildings. But there's more to be done. Twenty years ago today, much of Los Angeles was shaken awake at 4:31 a.m. by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake on a blind thrust fault that scientists didn't know existed.