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Two of the deadliest earthquakes in history occurred on January 17th.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two of the 10 deadliest earthquakes in recorded history occurred on January 17th. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Southern California’s Northridge earthquake occurred just one year earlier, in 1994. The two earthquakes killed 6,400 people, injured 45,000, and left 500,000 homeless. “These two events were seminal for the engineering and…