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Humanizing Nature's Fury

"Oh, unhappy mortals! Oh, deplorable Earth!"' So begins Voltaire's cri de coeur over the devastation of the "great" earthquake that struck Lisbon in 1755. "One hundred thousand unfortunates that the earth devours, who, bloody, torn and still throbbing, buried under their roofs, end -- unaided and in horrible torment -- their lamentable days!"