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A Teenager's Diary Captured America's Most Powerful Earthquake
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A Teenager's Diary Captured America's Most Powerful Earthquake

A teenage girl in rural Kentucky kept a diary in 1789, and it may contain the best eyewitness account of the New Madrid earthquakes—the most powerful seismic events in recorded North American history.

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