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Nature 440, 16-18 (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440016a; Published online 1 March 2006
Seismology: Shaking the foundations
Geoff Brumfiel1
- Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's physical science correspondent.
Abstract
Last autumn's deadly earthquake caught Pakistan's government and scientific community off guard. Now a handful of officials and academics are struggling to bring the country up to code. Geoff Brumfiel reports from the scene.
On the morning of Sunday 8 October, residents of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, were shaken from their beds. The city was in the grip of an earthquake so violent that people could barely stand to flee.
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