Tracking big quakes around the world

Descriptions of destructive earthquakes and their effects have been preserved for hundreds of years in oral and written histories of people from around the world. Geologic records contain even longer, multi-thousand year records of the ground shaking and its effects. However, the science of studying earthquakes—seismology—is relatively young, only about 100 years old. The destructive earthquakes of the past decade not only shook cities, countries and continents, but also provided unprecedented

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