{"id":8101,"date":"2011-03-12T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rverdaguer.com\/blog\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2020-03-08T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T02:37:38","slug":"103-year-ago-tsunami-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rverdaguer.com\/blog\/103-year-ago-tsunami-1908\/","title":{"rendered":"103 year ago – tsunami 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"
nature violence repeats itself<\/span><\/h6>\n
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“Tsunami”-The New York Times – Op-Ed – Dec. 28, 2008 – Linoleum Cut :11″x8″- 30x20cm<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a01908 – ‘tsunami’ in\u00a0Italy a\u00a0linoleum cut\u00a0commissioned by The New York Times.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an excerpt by\u00a0John <\/em>Bemelmans Marciano<\/em>ne, one of the rare survivor at the time . Even so there was no nuclear condition to worry about nearly 100.000 lives were lost.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“There was no time to outrun the water, but someone pushed my grandfather up into an olive tree along with his little brother, whom Lorenzo held onto with all his strength. The roar of the sea was deafening \u2014 the tidal wave crested at more than 40 feet \u2014 and fight though Lorenzo did, the impact broke his clutch on Giuseppe.\u00a0No one will ever know how long my grandfather wandered the ruined coast, calling out the names of his brother, of his family.\u00a0Everything Lorenzo had ever known was destroyed.\u00a0Across the straits, Messina \u2014 one of the most ancient cities in Europe \u2014 had been annihilated. More than 50,000 were dead. It took only a few hours for civilization to break down among the survivors.\u00a0Looting ran rampant; thieves cut fingers from the dead rather than waste time prying their rings off. \u00a0The 1908 earthquake stands as the most lethal natural disaster in recorded European history. (And only the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 has dwarfed it recently.) Nearly 100,000 people perished, including all 16 of my grandfather\u2019s relatives in Via Madonell\u00a0\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n


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