It challenges judgement with unpredictability and consequences in a way that man-made structures cannot, she says.

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Many of them question whether cultural phenomena, including destruction layers, cultural-piercing features (man-made structures displaced by surface rupturing, e.g. viaducts), structural damage to buildings, indications of repairs, historical accounts and myths can be reliably used as earthquake indicators.

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The University of Aberdeen has received the financial backing to develop man-made proteins closely related to structures found in sharks.

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