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MORE ON EARTHQUAKE MEDALSLeon Saryan writes: There are a number of medals issued commemorating the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, which devastated about 1/4 of the country and killed 25,000 people. Leon provided these images. A nice sub-genre of numismatics, and timely because of this week's earthquakes in New Zealand which triggered a tsunami watch. Coincidentally, there was also a smaller quake on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Dick Hanscom wasn't kidding - they DO have a lot of quakes there. How do I know this? Well, I checked the U.S. Geological Survey's web site: Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html) -Editor     To read the previous E-Sylum article, see: MORE ON EARTHQUAKE TOKENS AND MEDALS (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n28a14.html) Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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