Earthquakes

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Today’s Earthquake Fact

Before electronics allowed recordings of large earthquakes, scientists built large spring-pendulum seismometers in an attempt to record the long-period motion produced by such quakes. The largest one weighed about 15 tons. There is a medium-sized one, three stories high, in Mexico City that is still in operation.

Today in Earthquake History

January 13, 2001
M 7.7, El Salvador – At least 844 people killed, 4,723 injured, 108,226 houses destroyed and more than 150,000 buildings damaged in El Salvador. About 585 of the deaths… Read More