![]() He is also the moving force behind Foundation, an organization dedicated to scientific research on earthquakes. ![]() ![]() The second major episode shows Crane as an adult, world's foremost earthquake expert, a Nobel laureate, and a ruthless scientist and entrepreneur dedicated to relieve the misery of those affected by earthquakes. ![]() An earthquake in California in the late 20th century has left seven year old Lewis Crane a crippled, homeless orphan. The first of four episodes opens the story. The story begins late in the 20th century, and tracks the life of the main protagonist, Lewis Crane. There are four defining episodes in the story, and a variety of subplots and minor threads - many of them unrelated to the main story. The plot deals with predicting earthquakes months or years in advance, and eventually banishing them forever from earth by stopping all tectonic activity. The book's title is a reference to the Richter scale, on which 10 was considered (when the scale was devised) to be the most power an earthquake was likely to ever have. ![]() The protagonist is Lewis Crane, who develops a hatred of earthquakes due to a major earthquake hitting his house when he is seven years old, killing his parents. ![]()
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