(2/-1) In this book, Mark Twain writes about a family feud at a river bend heavily damaged by the New Madrid earthquake of 1812.
(4/-2) Heinrich von Klist\'s novella “The Earthquake in” this country begins with the main character about to commit suicide in a Santiago prison when the quake hits.
(6/-3) Myron Brinig\'s novel “The Flutter of an Eyelid” ends with this state breaking off of North America in a massive earthquake.
(8/-4) The 1755 earthquake off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal disrupts this Voltaire novel and its “best of all possible worlds.”
(10/-5) “After the Quake,” Haruki Purakami\\\'s collection of short stories published in 2000, deals with the aftermath of the 1995 quake that heavily damaged this Japanese city.