The day the earth stood still: Media messages and local life in a predicted Arkansas earthquakeFootnote¹

I am indebted to Ben E. Therrell III and his family for their help in this work. Also, I acknowledge the kindness of the many people in Arkansas who spoke with me. I thank Sia Lambropolous, J. Obie Camp, and Phil Sellers for their helpful suggestions in the writing of this manuscript, and I gratefully acknowledge the improvements suggested by the reviewers of CSMC. Earlier drafts of this work were presented at the 1992 Stone Symposium for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, the 1992 Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, and the 1993 Annual Meetings of the Australian Sociological Society. This study was funded, in part, by a Faculty Development Grant from Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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