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Earthquakes Influence on the Planet
They approach the topic carefully, wary of sounding merciless, aware that the geology they admire has just caused a staggering loss of life. Even so, scientists argue that in the very long view, the global process behind great earthquakes is quite advantageous for life on earth — especially human life.
Powerful tremors (震动) like the one that sent killer waves racing across the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26 (2004) are inevitable side effects of the constant recycling of planetary crust, which produces a cozy, habitable planet. Some experts refer to the regular blows — hundreds a day — as the planet’s heartbeat.
The advantages began billions of years ago, when this crustal recycling made the oceans and atmosphere and formed the continents. Today, it builds mountains, enriches soils, regulates the p Janet’s temperature, concentrates gold and other rare metals and maintains the sea’s chemical bala
A. produces more advantages than disadvantages
B. may finally kill all human life on earth
C. annoyingly destroys the cozy, habitable earth
D. works just as the blood recycling in human body