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NEVER had earthquake taken such toll of human life as that which has just devastated Calabria. Hundreds had been killed by a single earthquake, or thousands, exceptionally the number had run to tens of thousands, but the Yeddo—now Tokio—earthquake of 1703, with its death-roll of 200,000, had stood in a class by itself; yet even this great number seems insufficient to count the deaths on the morning of December 28, 1908, and if to those whose lives were ended by the immediate effects of the earthquake we add the subsequent deaths from injury, exposure, and sickness, the loss will amount to well over a quarter of a million lives.
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O., R. The Italian Earthquake . Nature 79, 287–289 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079287b0
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