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Messina earthquake seismogram The port of Messina in c. 1900, before the earthquake and tsunami. On Monday, 28 December 1908, at 5:20:27 [13] an earthquake of 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale occurred. [14] Its epicentre was in the Strait of Messina which separates the busy port city of Messina in Sicily and Reggio Calabria on the Italian ...
Carlo Montuori (3 August 1885 – 4 March 1968) was an Italian cinematographer and cameraman.. Born in Casacalenda, near Campobasso, at twelve Montuori moved to Milan to live with his uncle, a photographer and a painter; in Milan he attended the Polytechnic University and followed courses in painting at the Brera Academy. [1]
The ship played an important role in rescuing survivors of the 1908 Messina Earthquake. The SS Afonwen, captained by William Owen, was in Messina harbour during the earthquake on a voyage carrying coal. This event was accompanied by a very significant tsunami.
Following the capture of the fort, the people of Messina demanded its demolition, but the new government saw its importance and the damage sustained in the sieges of 1848-49 and 1860-61 was repaired. The fort remained an active military installation until the earthquake of 1908, when it was converted into a warehouse. [3]
Pages in category "Victims of the 1908 Messina earthquake" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Over the following centuries it was a focal point of a number of rebellions against the ruling Spanish by the populace of Messina. [3] Having suffered damage in the 1783 earthquake, in 1838 it was converted into a Bourbon prison which came under attack a decade later in the 1848 anti-Bourbon insurrection. [3]
Caroline Twigge Matthews, MBChB (1877–1927) was a British doctor and war correspondent, and was dubbed a 'war heroine'. [1] She served in the Italian Red Cross in the 1908 Messina earthquake, and in military hospitals during the Balkans War and World War One, and was taken as a prisoner of war.
Documentary films about earthquakes, the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in size from those that are so weak that they cannot be felt to those violent enough to toss people around and destroy whole cities.