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earthquake occurred in a sparsely populated part of the Altai Mountains, or the loss of life
would have been much greater.

(^92) R. A. Kurushin et al, “Abstract,” in The Surface Rupture of the 1957 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, Earthquake
(Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America, 1997), 2.