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&st earthquakes occur along these major seismic faults although
they are rarely seen at the earth's surface. The San Andreas Fault
in California and the North Anatolia Fault in Turkey are visible.
The Circum-Pacific belt extends from Chile through the west coast
of North and South America, Alaska, and Japan to New Zealand. The
Alpide extends from Indonesia to Spain. Broadening out as it
enters the Asian continental mass, it includes southwestern China,
where an earthquake in January in the year 1556 killed 830,000
people in Shenski Province, and continues into northern India, Iran,
Wkey, the Balkans, Italy and North Africa. The mid-oceanic ridge
is a thin belt of earthquakes virtually harmless to man which
follows the ridge system in the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific
Oceans.
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