How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade talks with host Sarah Crespi about the role of inequality in past pandemics. Evidence from medical records and cemeteries suggests diseases like the 1918 flu, smallpox, and even the Black Death weren’t indiscriminately killing people—instead these infections caused more deaths in those with less money or status. Also this week, Aaron Wech, a research geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, joins Sarah to talk about recordings of more than 1 million earthquakes from deep under Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, which hasn’t erupted in 4500 years. They discuss how these earthquakes, which have repeated every 7 to 12 minutes for at least 20 years, went undetected for so long. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). ++ [Image: Ian Aiden Relkoff/Wikipedia; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Lizzie Wade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.9	Welcome to the science podcast for May 15, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week,
1:29.0	contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade talks about the role of inequality in past pandemics.
1:34.6	The Black Death and the 1918 flu weren't exactly indiscriminate killers, and coronavirus
1:40.1	may be walking a similar path. Then we have researcher Aaron Weck. He talks about recordings
1:45.8	of more than one million earthquakes from deep under a dormant Hawaiian volcano. Now we have
1:55.2	contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade. She wrote this week on historical pandemics and inequality. Hi, Lizzie. Hi, Sarah.
2:03.3	What made you decide to write this story, this story about how pandemics have affected
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