Today, everyone knows earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. But in an age before seismometers, when everyone believed quakes were "the Dragon King growing angry" or "the Great Turtle turning over," Wang said: Nonsense--they are the ground itself moving!
今天大家都知道地震是板塊運動造成，但在缺乏先進儀器、人人都認為地震是「龍王發怒」、「鰲魚翻身」時，紀元二十七年出生的王充就說：別傻了！地震是地殼本身在動啦！