Comments - Spain: Earthquake rocks Lorca, Murcia, killing 10 - Saviors Of Earth2024-03-28T20:07:08Zhttps://saviorsofearth.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2492330%3ABlogPost%3A373225&xn_auth=noKnowing the area fairly well,…tag:saviorsofearth.ning.com,2011-05-13:2492330:Comment:3732472011-05-13T02:24:12.264ZUllanhttps://saviorsofearth.ning.com/profile/Ullan
<p>Knowing the area fairly well, I'd say it's the old buildings that are mostly the cause of the deaths. Murcia straddles a fault line, and in my youth I played in a lake which I only recently realised was in fact the flooded caldera of a dormant volcano.</p>
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<p>Interesting factoid: the spain earthquake happened on the day Raffaele Bendandi, an italian geologist who died in 1979, predicted a quake would destroy Rome. The prediction is said to be apocryphical, however, and treated as an…</p>
<p>Knowing the area fairly well, I'd say it's the old buildings that are mostly the cause of the deaths. Murcia straddles a fault line, and in my youth I played in a lake which I only recently realised was in fact the flooded caldera of a dormant volcano.</p>
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<p>Interesting factoid: the spain earthquake happened on the day Raffaele Bendandi, an italian geologist who died in 1979, predicted a quake would destroy Rome. The prediction is said to be apocryphical, however, and treated as an urban myth.</p>