Certain parts of the world are notoriously afflicted with earthquakes and others are almost entirely free from them. In the eastern hemisphere there is a broad earthquake belt that stretches from the Azores, in an easterly to southeasterly direction, through the Mediterranean region, the Persian Gulf, Northern India, Burma and the East Indies; another which embraces Japan and the other islands east of the Asiatic continent; and a third extending from the Caspian Sea across Turkestan into the heart of Asia.
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