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Cooked Beans. Surveys indicated that the tremor had devastated a tragic triangle of 2,700 sq. mi., extending from Siquinalá in the south and Gualán in the northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from...
...break occurred along a generally east-west line known as the Motagua Fault and measured 7.5 on the Richter seismological scale (the 1972 quake that leveled much of Managua, Nicaragua measured 6.3). The sudden movement may have answered a question that has been bothering geophysicists for years. Earth scientists have never been sure just where the Guatemalan section of the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates lies. Now they have an idea...
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