Reply #115: This Is Nonesense, Mr. Brennan

[The Magistrate]

There are on average a little less than a thousand earthquakes a year of level five or higher, capable of doing some real damage, and about a hundred and twenty of these are powerful enough to do great damage. As the greatest portion of the earth remains uninhabited, of course the great preponderance of these cause no human harm, and so are remarked only by geologists, and even of those that do humans harm, the greatest proportion go unreported very far from where they occur. The idea that earthquakes are rare events is nonesense; a mere artifact of innattention....