Where are the worst earthquake regions?
An earthquake might, just might, strike the Ottawa region of eastern Canada. But this is not at all likely to happen. However, long ago, this region was shaken by one shuddering earthquake after another. This was more than two billion years ago, when the ancient Laurentian mountains were young. Earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world, on the land or under the sea, but most places do not feel them for hundreds and often thousands of years. Certain other places are not so lucky. Slight quakes may tremble the ground every few days or weeks.~.and every few years the region is struck by a major earthquake. Three of these earthquake regions can be charted in long sprawling belts on a world map. One wide belt centers around the high Himalayas of northern India. Another is under the Atlantic Ocean and the third follows the shore lines around the Pacific Ocean. The Himalaya earthquake belt reaches eastward through the Mediterranean and the Alps of Central Europe. The Atlantic belt curves d
