I am going to tell you about The Famous Earthquakes.- In 1996 San Francisco,Usa, was shaken by an earthquake that lasted three minutes .The earthquake started fires that burned the city flat.
- The places of the Minaon people on Crete were destroyed by an earthquake in about 1750B.C
- The earliest documented earthquke hit the ancient Greek town of Sparta in 464 B.C,killing 20,ooo people.
- In AD 62 the musical debut of the Roman Emperor Nero in Naples was ended by an earthquake.
- In July 1201 an earthquake rocked every city inthe eastern Mediterranean.It may have killed well over 1 million people.
The Michoacan earthquake of 1995 killed 35,000 in Mexico City 360km away.Silts (fine soils) under the city amplified the ground movements 75 times.
This informations are taken by my soecial book Planet Earth.
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