Fault Lines: Understanding the Power of Earthquakes

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Introduction When i Was foUr Years old I lived with my family in Tokyo Japan I remember seeing the polite nods and warm smiles in the crowded subways riding on the back of my mother’s bicycle through the alleys of the city and wishing we could visit the five-story Sanrio toy store I also remember the regular earthquake drills in our kindergarten class We would scramble to get under the desks and then line up and march outside It seemed like a fun game at the time but there was seriousness about it I first felt the ground move one day when I was playing at home after school I had cleared out a bookshelf bookshelf to use as a Barbie house when suddenly all the showing off my school uniform on my first day of kindergarten in tokyo my little sister jessica is in the stroller beside me Piroska Wagstaffe 6