TOEFL Reading Academic Passage Practice #024 - Measuring Earthquakes Before Electronics

What you will practice

• Reading comprehension
• Evidence and inference
• Time management

Topic: Earth Science · Read an Academic Passage

Passage preview

Long before electronic sensors, observers tried to compare earthquakes through human reports and physical damage. They recorded whether dishes rattled, chimneys fell, walls cracked, or ground movement was noticed across a region. In the nineteenth century,…