Review: The Great Earthquake by Kathryn Schulz

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“In 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, in Japan, Chris Goldfinger was about three hundred and twenty kilometers away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international congress on seismology. Noting the first shocks, those present in the room laughed. Earthquakes are common in Japan – that was the third of the week – and, after all, they were at a congress on seismology. Then they all looked at their clocks.”