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Many will let you monitor earthquake activity, ozone levels, humidity, and flood threats.
Just below the permanent market halls on the main Praça da República, you’ll find a well-preserved section of the medieval castle walls (which were much damaged by the 1755 earthquake).
The first palatial structures at Knossós, and other great cities such as Phaistós and Mália, were erected around 2000 b.c., but these were destroyed by an earthquake 300 years later.
The New York Times fronts that, but leads instead with the tremendous earthquake (magnitude 7.6) that hit Taiwan early today, killing thousands, and trapping perhaps just as many in toppled-over and collapsed buildings.
Many papers around the world contrasted China's ambiguous response to last week's earthquake in Taiwan with Greece's no-strings-attached aid to rival Turkey after that nation's August temblor.