After the Earth Quakes, Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet
Impacts and Reverberations
Human society is organized for a stable earth; its whole
machinery supposes that, while the other familiar elements of air and water are fluctuating and untrustworthy, the earth
affords a foundation which is firm. Now and then this implied
compact with nature is broken, and the ground trembles
beneath our feet. At such times we feel a painful sense of
shipwrecked confidence; we learn how very precious to us was that trust in the earth which we gave without question.
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