​GU INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE
PREDICTION

Earthquakes left ancient people with the same problem they leave us with now: the ground, the most dependable thing in daily life, suddenly became unsafe. Before seismographs, satellite maps, and plate tectonics, writers still tried to preserve what happened. They used the tools they had: myth, royal inscription, omen list, annal, epic, prayer, chronicle, and natural philosophy. The result is a wide body of earthquake literature from ancient civilizations. Some texts treat ea