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  • ...ul than one of magnitude 5, and 100 times more powerful than a magnitude 4 earthquake. It was named after its inventor, Charles Richter, who developed the measur
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  • <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>A measure of an [[earthquake]]'s strength.
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  • ==Earthquake zone== ...oining Areas |author=Ali Quaisar and Akhtar Naeem Khan |journal=Journal of Earthquake Engineering |year=2005 |volume=9 |issue=5 |pages=587-607 |url=http://cat.in
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  • An earthquake that caused much damage in California in 1906.
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  • {{r|San Francisco earthquake of 1906}} Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Earthquake]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • {{dambigbox|Earthquake|Earth}} An '''earthquake''' is a shaking of the ground, normally caused by movements on a geologic [
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  • ...astating impact on the region. Some 20,000 people lost their lives and the earthquake triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Damage to the prefecture'
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  • ...in 1964. He was known for his study of the 1952 Tehachapi, California, USA earthquake.
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  • ...y recognized geophysicist known for identifying and naming Alaska's Denali earthquake fault and formulating the theory of the
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  • *[http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/sb_eqs/1925/mission.html 1925 earthquake damage to the Mission]
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  • ...price or availability of goods or services - such as might result from an earthquake or an increase in the oil price.
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  • ...t along these breaks causes the ground to shake, resulting in tremors or [[earthquake]]s.
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  • ...ick to draw flak]'. 15th September 2012.</ref> as well as presiding over [[earthquake]] and [[tsunami]] reconstruction. He was re-elected party leader in Septemb
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  • The '''Polaris''' [[strike-slip]] fault is a newly discovered earthquake fault located approximately 35 miles from [[Truckee, California]], USA. The ...-fault-found-california/ | title = MSNBC Technology and Science New Hidden Earthquake Fault Found in California | accessdate = 2011-06-19}}</ref> <ref> {{cite we
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  • {{rpl|San Francisco earthquake of 1906}}
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  • ...s. Large parts of Port-au-Prince were again devastated in the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], with reconstruction expected to take many years.<ref>''BBC News'': '[htt
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  • ...n persons who suffer during a [[nature|natural]] [[disaster]] such as an [[earthquake]], [[tornado]], [[hurricane]], [[landslide]] or [[flood]].
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  • {{rpl|Earthquake}}
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • ...the fault, and a low likelihood of surface rupture in the event of a large earthquake on the fault. No large historic earthquakes are known to have occurred on | coauthors = Working Group On California Earthquake Probabilities
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  • | [[Earthquake]] | Earthquake
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  • ...powered. She participated in the recovery after the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire.<ref name=SFMuseum/> She was owned by the State of [[California |title=San Francisco Fire Department 1906 Earthquake and Fire Operations |publisher=Sfmuseum.org
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  • ...rvation of giant panda habitat in South Minshan, China, after the May 2008 earthquake]'. ''Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment''.
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • ...atin: '''Neptune''') he was the [[Greek god|god]] of the [[sea]], and of [[earthquake]]s. He was a [[brother]] of [[Zeus]] and [[Hades]]; while Zeus lived on [[M
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  • ==Earthquake resilience== ...ally occurring analogue of the [[Earthquake_resistant_structure#Wood_frame|earthquake resistant]] [http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/history-of-parliament/pla
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  • {{rpl|Earthquake}}
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  • ...ke the red variety of Sindh and the Punjab. Quetta suffered another severe earthquake in 2008.
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  • ...disasters because of their impacts to humans. Natural hazards include: [[earthquake]]s, [[volcano]]es, [[hurricane]]s, and [[tornado]]s. Human-caused hazards
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • ...uake, April 18, 1906," http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/virtualtour/earthquake.php Retrieved, April 6, 2011.</ref>}} ...The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: How Large Was the Offset?" http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/offset.php, retrieved April 22, 2011.</r
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  • *[http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire]
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  • ...official name on October 17, 2016, the anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.<ref name=ProfMar2016-08-16/> Local schoolchildren helped pick the vessel' ...-hoses, so local fire engines could fight fires in neighborhoods where the earthquake broke underground pipes.
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  • ...to travel there to help fight the extensive fires in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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  • * {{r|Seismology}} ([[earthquake]]s and elastic [[wave]]s)
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  • ...ged from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ...ged from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • ...aster'', BBC News Special Report, 10 September 2008]</ref>. A Tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 resulted in a death toll of 9,079, with 12,645 mi
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  • {{r|Earthquake}}
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  • * Participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire.<ref name=GuardianSFIrwin/><ref name=SFMuseum/> * Participated in [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] and fire.
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  • ...ty over the years; this situation has been exacerbated by the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], which claimed up to a quarter of a million lives.<ref>''BBC News'': '[ht Haiti has seen several [[earthquake]]s over the centuries, including disasters in 1770 and 1842 which destroyed
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  • ...e right, seen here in 1853, was subsequently destroyed in the 1868 Hayward earthquake. ...ought on the Mission's unreinforced masonry structures by the 1868 Hayward earthquake.
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  • ...long-term party or public support, especially following the [[2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]], to continue beyond August of that year. He was succeeded by
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  • *The magnitude 9.0 [[Tohoku-Oki earthquake]] that occurred off the east coast of [[Japan]] on March 11, 2011 has been ...Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake|journal=Science|American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)|
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  • ...able]] in 1858, the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] of 1897 and the [[San Francisco Earthquake]]
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  • ..., by a general event, sometimes only loosely connected to a story, e.g. an earthquake, or by a special device, as it is often encountered in [[James Bond films]] *In [[Robert Altman]]'s and Frank Barhydt's ''[[Short Cuts]]'' the earthquake concluding the film also functions in part as a ''deus ex machina'', a narr
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  • ...win enough party or public support, especially following the [[2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]], to continue beyond August of that year. That month, his succ
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  • ...da/index.cfm. Giant panda].'</ref> though a [[2008 Sichuan earthquake|2008 earthquake]] destroyed about a quarter of their habitat and fragmented the animals int
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  • ...most recent eruption was probably in the last 10,000 years. However, an [[earthquake]] rocked the mountain in 1840, burying a [[chapel]], [[convent]], and villa
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  • ...story have been so dubbed. For instance, the day of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, December 26, 2004, is not called "Black Sunday" but it was far
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  • ...- Founded as La Mission San Francisco De Asis by Franciscans, it survived earthquake and fire"], ''Catholic San Francisco'', January 31, 2003. Accessed March 23
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  • ...uildings from further destruction by fire following the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]]. Her worthy assistance resulted in a second vintage fireboat obtained for ...top the horrific fires which swept the city after the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]. In 1909, two new fireboats were placed in service—''David Scannell'' a
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  • ...ior wall buttress at Mission San Miguel Arcángel, which suffered extensive earthquake damage on December 22, 2003. Sections of the plaster finish coat have sloug
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  • Next to [[earthquake]]s and [[flood]]s, wind can be the cause of some of the worst types of natu
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  • ...qiual english, even though the cause is localized large earth movements ([[earthquake]]s or [[landslide]]s), not any tidal force.
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  • ...e is estimated to have been [[Richter magnitude]] 8.0. As a result of the earthquake, many buildings in San Francisco were destroyed, and a fire started which b
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  • ...ch took 12 years to build. It was about 33m high and collapsed during an [[earthquake]] in 226 B.C., just 56 years after it was finished.<ref name=Higgins>Higgin
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  • * Seidensticker, Edward. ''Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake'' (1983) * Seidensticker, Edward. ''Tokyo Rising: The City since the Great Earthquake.'' (1990). 384 pp. [http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/papers/jhist4.htm onli
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  • ...as it stood in 79 AD. Its basic structure then changed little until the [[earthquake]] of 62 AD, after which it appears to have declined to such an extent that
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  • ...early mission life. The State of California is requiring a $12–15 million earthquake retrofit that must be completed by 2015, or the mission will be closed. The ...a Historical Landmarks League rebuilt the chapel walls. Unfortunately, the earthquake of April 18, 1906, seriously damaged the building. In 1928, Franciscan Fri
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  • ...visible at right. The large stone church was severely damaged in the 1906 earthquake.<ref name="krell148">Krell, p. 148</ref>
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  • |The Mission of the Saintly Prince The Archangel, St. Gabriel of the [[Earthquake|Tremblors]] .... The 1812 [http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/wrightwd.html Wrightwood Earthquake] caused the three-bell ''campanario'', located adjacent to the chapel's eas
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  • {{rpl|San Francisco earthquake of 1906}}
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  • ...aw [[probability distribution]]s such as the [[Gutenberg-Richter law]] for earthquake sizes, or scaling relationships such as those observed in [[fractal]]s, [[1 ...nature, for example the [[Gutenberg-Richter law]] for the distribution of earthquake sizes. If we suppose a distribution to be of the form <math>p(x) = ax^{-k}
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  • ...ch took 12 years to build. It was about 33m high and collapsed during an [[earthquake]] in 226 B.C., just 56 years after it was finished.<ref name=Higgins>Higgin ...tline. Built in the late 4th century B.C., the lighthouse was damaged by [[earthquake]]s and in the late 15th century A.D. a fort was built on the site. The Ligh
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  • ...CE ON THE FORCE HERE Friend of Kenlon and "Smoky Joe" Martin a Hero During Earthquake in Southern City in 1886.
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  • ...s of information following the [[2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami|Tohoku earthquake]] in 2011; in the disaster region, one newspaper, the ''Ishinomaki Hibi Shi
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  • | title = Qom State Province Earthquake
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  • ...vised the Japanese government in the reconstruction of Tokyo following the earthquake. '' The Administration and Politics of Tokyo'' (1923).
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  • ...d by Scientologists, sometimes at the sites of disasters (the 2010 Haitian earthquake and at Ground Zero following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade
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  • ...CE ON THE FORCE HERE Friend of Kenlon and "Smoky Joe" Martin a Hero During Earthquake in Southern City in 1886.
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  • ...ty over the years; this situation has been exacerbated by the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], which claimed up to a quarter of a million lives.<ref>''BBC News'': '[ht
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  • ...d directly brought them down. Rather, God planned that there would be an [[earthquake]] at that place and time, so that the city would fall to the Israelites. In
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  • ...Air Transport. Several American transport pilots, including the legendary "Earthquake" McGoon, died in attempts to get supplies to Dien Bien Phu.<ref name=McGoon | title=They found the Earthquake, Jim McGovern has come home
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  • ...lifornia|Los Angeles to mix the album, they ironically experienced a minor earthquake.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Dave|date=2012|title=Led Zeppelin: From a
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  • ...dicated in 1820. The towers were considerably damaged in the June 29, 1925 earthquake,<ref> [http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/santabar.html]</ref> but were
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  • * Seismological research as well as monitoring of seismic activity ([[earthquake]]s).
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  • ...s, her pump can be provide water to [[fire engines]] near shore, when an [[earthquake]], or another disaster, has broken near shore water mains.
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  • ...kers to aid the citizens of [[Argostoli]], [[Greece]], after a devastating earthquake.
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  • ...(9%). They typically are caused by building collapse from explosives, or [[earthquake]] and other natural disasters, or construction accidents. They also can be
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  • ...cident, despite trains regularly reaching speeds of 180mph (300km/h) and [[earthquake]]s in the region; the trains are also notoriously punctual, with delays ave
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  • ...ocial Research]] in New York. He advised on reconstructing Tokyo after the earthquake of 1923. Although enormously influential through his massive writings, he d
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  • ...d disasters. Hazards frequently studied include: [[fire]], [[drought]], [[earthquake]]s, [[flood]]s, [[volcano]]es, [[hurricane]]s, [[tornado]]s, [[toxin]]s, [[
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  • ...93. The back wall of the theater was knocked down in the 1994 [[Northridge earthquake]]. An insurance settlement paid for a majority of the renovation. In this r
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  • ...da, the Priest's Quarters, and the Mission itself were also damaged by the earthquake. The site was cleared and a wood-framed, Gothic-style church was erected d ..., though it incorporates a concealed structural steel frame which provides earthquake resistance. Further reconstruction of the missing part of the padres' livi
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  • ====1923 Kanto earthquake==== ...er scale. The epicentre was in Sagami Bay, about 80 km south of Tokyo. The earthquake was followed five minutes later by a huge tsunami, with a height of about 1
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  • ...tline. Built in the late 4th century B.C., the lighthouse was damaged by [[earthquake]]s and in the late 15th century A.D. a fort was built on the site.
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  • ...gov/CGS/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/earthquake_information.htm San Simeon Earthquake] of December 22, 2003 caused severe damage to the sanctuary. It will be sev
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  • ...y the Roman General [[Sulla]] in 89 B.C. and became a ''municipium''. An [[earthquake]] struck the region on 5 February A.D. 62, damaging Herculaneum's buildings
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  • ...he [http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/wrightwd.html#SBAR Santa Barbara Earthquake] severely damaged the Mission buildings on [[December 21]]st of that year.
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  • ...in relatively good condition. However, the ensuing fire touched off by the earthquake reached almost to the Mission's doorstep. To prevent the spread of flames,
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  • ...eal, just east of the Mission, lies on a fault scarp.<ref>Robert Iacopi, ''Earthquake Country'' (Menlo Park:Lane Publishing, 1964, 1971)</ref>
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  • Earthquake - also has historically happened<br>
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  • *Earthquake Hazard Reduction (EOP) ...ign Disaster Assistance (USAID-OFDA). Its first deployment was to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia. In 1991, as FEMA refocused from Cold War to domestic disasters
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  • ...e to concerns that the California facility was too small and vulnerable to earthquake risk, the organization purchased a building in [[Scottsdale, Arizona|Scotts
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  • :: A Japanese earthquake and tsunami kills over 9000 people and causes damage estimated to be over $
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  • ...is at Pompeii, 2006.jpg|right|300px|The Temple of Isis was damaged when an earthquake struck Pompeii in A.D. 62.}} ...and Herculaneum'' (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), 74.</ref> The earthquake was depicted in the walls paintings of a house at Pompeii belonging to Luci
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  • ...is at Pompeii, 2006.jpg|right|300px|The Temple of Isis was damaged when an earthquake struck Pompeii in A.D. 62.}} ...and Herculaneum'' (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), 74.</ref> The earthquake was depicted in the walls paintings of a house at Pompeii belonging to Luci
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