I discuss how much attention different earthquakes get in the scientific and nonscientific literature. For the former, all earthquakes above magnitude 7.5 appear in a scientific article, and the number of articles tends to increase with magnitude. For the latter, most shocks, even if damaging, become largely forgotten in a few decades, though some, such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, live on in popular memory.

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名人地震

我将讨论科学和非科学文献对不同地震的关注程度。对于前者，所有7.5级以上的地震都出现在科学文章中，并且文章数量趋于随震级增加。对于后者，即使在造成破坏的情况下，大多数震动在几十年内就已基本被遗忘，尽管有些震动，例如1906年旧金山地震，仍在人们的记忆中留下来。