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“Among the various types of natural disasters, violent earthquakes are particularly terrifying…..because the shaking of the earth betrays our belief in its solidarity…..the movement of the ground becomes fluid, confusing horizontal and vertical as it flattens towns…..The very earth, the source of the bounty that provides the four seasons and the life that supports us, becomes a force of destruction.” —Iokibe Makoto
Released July, 2020.
Iokibe Makoto is president of the Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute and penned a regular column on natural disasters for the Mainichi newspaper.
Read our review of The Era of Great Disasters here.