Every day, there are earthquakes occurring somewhere around the world. To the Japanese, most of whom experience small tremors dozens of times a year, earthquakes are a commonplace of life. But the worldwide distribution of seismic activity is uneven, so much so that there are places where people live their entire lives without experiencing a single quake. Why is this? In this edition of Earthrium we focus on earthquakes in an attempt to shed light on the dynamic nature of planet Earth.
