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by Katherine Neer

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    Neer, Katherine.  "What if a plane landed in San Francisco at the same time there was a big earthquake?"  18 February 2008.  HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/plane-landed-in-earthquake.htm>  27 May 2012.
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