Day 1,656: seismic, tectonics, implore

The tragedy prompted the government to introduce seismic building codes and to support extensive research into plate tectonics.

Flight attendants implored passengers to keep calm while they identified three safe exits and employed backup megaphones to communicate when the in-flight announcement system failed.

A major earthquake in Japan highlights the country’s resilience

Artwork of the day 
Tectonics
Jacek Yerka
Original Title: Tektonik
Date: 2004; Poland
Style: Surrealism
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
seismic: relating to or caused by an earthquake:
tectonics: processes that relate to the structure of the earth's surface and the way it is formed, changed, and moved by forces inside it:
implore: to ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere, emotional, and determined way:

Quote of the day
“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!”

― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See