Subject(s): Social aspects -- Environmental aspects -- Seismology -- Science and civilization -- Earthquakes- origins and consequences : Induced earthquakes, Mark Twain's earthquake almanac -- Earthquakes and hind of god, decline of ancient sparta- tale of hoplites, helots and quaking earth, Euripides, homer and Aristotle, earthquakes in England- echoes in religion and literature, great Lisbon earthquake and axiom, new madrid, Missouri in 1811- once and future disaster, earthquake, fire and politics in San Francisco, Japan's great Kanto earthquake- Kamakura earthquake of 1257 and rise of lotus sect, peru in 1970 chaos in Andes- Chile- Tsunamis, devastation and Darwin , 1972 Managua earthquake- catalyst for revolution