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A PRELIMINARY account, based on material collected for the official report, on the Calabrian earthquake of December 28, 1908, by Dr. G. Martinelli, is published in the last issue of the Bolletino Bimensuale of the Italian Meteorological Society. The earthquake was felt, not only over the whole of Sicily and of Italy south of Naples and Campobasso, but also in Montenegro, the coastal districts of Albania, and in the islands of Zante, Corfu, and Cephalonia. The greatest violence was experienced in the neighbourhood of the Straits of Messina, but there were also two independent centres in Sicily, one near Raddusa and the other near Augusta, in which the violence reached seven and eight degrees of the Mercalli scale respectively. The epoch of the shock was 5h. 2om. 23s., and its duration about 305. to 40s.; outside the central area it attained 50s. at Capo d'Armi, Capo Spartivento, Palmi, &c., and as much as 6os. at Cataforio, but at greater distances othe duration became less, being only 20s. to 25s. at Naples. The character of the shock is described as undulatory, perpendicular, and rotary or vorticose in the central district, but the vorticose movement was not moticed where the shock fell below the eighth degree of the Mercalli scale, or a destructive degree of violence.
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The Italian Earthquake of December 28, 1908. Nature 80, 445 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080445a0
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