<p><span class="deck"> THUS SPAKE THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEF TECUMSEH, PREDICTING— SOME BELIEVED—THE SERIES OF VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES THAT STRUCK THE MIDWEST IN THE WINTER OF 1811–12</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">When The Great Earthquake struck New England, learned men blamed everything from God’s wrath to an overabundance of lightning rods in Boston. Two hundred and twenty-five years later, geologists are at last discovering the true causes.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An all-but-forgotten San Francisco photographer has left us a grand and terrible record of the destruction and rebirth of an American city</span> </span></p>
