The First Earthquake Ever Recorded in Writing Had Only Nine Words
King Fa of the Xia dynasty was dead, and the earth was moving. Somewhere in what is now Shandong province in eastern China, the ground beneath the sacred slopes of Mount Tai shook hard enough for a court scribe to consider it worth recording alongside the death of a king. That single line,...
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