%0 Journal Article %T Earthquake traces %A Bernadette Marie Devilat %J Opticon1826 %D 2013 %I Ubiquity Press %R 10.5334/opt.ay %X The built environment possesses the intrinsic property to accumulate history, stories, processes and events. Its materials not only demonstrate a specific stage of history and building technique, but the marks, colours, degradations and cracks tell a deeper story about every built element. The photograph shows a wall seen from the street in Lolol, a heritage village located in the central valley of Chile. The cracks reflect the magnitude of the most recent major earthquake in the country in February 2010 and currently remain there a trace of that event. %K earthquake %K Chile %K South America %U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/230