The Forgotten 1202 earthquake

For most of human history, the disasters wrought by nature were utterly unpredictable, their causes wholly unknown.  They were merely a random act of God that could lay waste to whole cities without warning. On the morning of May 20, 1202, thousands of people across an enormous swath of the Earth experienced such destruction.

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