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Click for video: Morgan Page, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, shows a map of seismic activity in Haiti. Click on the image for a video about quake science from NBC Nightly News. |
Several factors came together to make Haiti’s earthquake the most devastating seismic shock to hit the country in two centuries – ranging from sheer magnitude to sheer poverty. In purely scientific terms, the best comparison was the Loma Prieta earthquake that shook the Bay Area during the 1989 World Series. But the tragedy in Haiti isn’t purely scientific.
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