Throwback Thursday: Earthquakes in Diverse Places
It’s Throwback Thursday. This week, it’s a timely discussion given this week’s devastating and deadly earthquake-induced landslide and flash flood on the border between Nepal and Tibet.
Originally released May 18, 2008
MORE than 50,000 people are estimated to have died in the May 12 earthquake in China, many of whom still lie beneath rubble scattered across an area the size of Belgium.
Elsewhere, the city of Reno, Nevada looks nervously to the northwest, where thousands of minor earthquakes have rattled the area since February 28. Scientists are puzzled by this cluster because they don’t fit…
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