Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin al'adun zamani, ana nuna hoton girgizar ƙasa ta hanyar tunawa da manyan biranen da aka lalatar, kamar Kobe a 1995 ko San Francisco a 1906
Ka yi haƙuri. Girgizar ƙasa da aka ƙaga tana iya faruwa ba zato ba tsammani ba tare da gargaɗi ba. Saboda wannan dalili, labarun da suka shafi girgizar ƙasa sun fara ne da bala'i kuma suna mai da hankali kan abin da ya faru nan da nan, kamar yadda yake a cikin "Short Walk to Daylight" (1972), "The Ragged Edge" (1968) ko "" (1999). Misali mai ban sha'awa shine littafin Heinrich von Kleist na gargajiya, "The Earthquake in Chile", wanda ya bayyana halakar Santiago a 1647. Haruki Murakami ta taƙaitaccen tarin labari "Bayan Girgizar Kasa" ya nuna sakamakon girgizar Kobe na 1995.