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AN earthquake was experienced in Spain on December 13, shaking the whole province of Valencia. The shock, which lasted three seconds, caused some apprehension and damaged buildings, but no casualties are reported. The district concerned is to some extent seismically active, as it borders the well-established Mediterranean region of earthquake activity, though it is not so densely populated with epicentres as is the region of Andalusia and Granada to the south of it. No really great earthquake has been experienced nearer to this region than Lisbon, 475 miles distant. It was from the Lisbon epicentre that the three shocks and several aftershocks occurred on and after November 1, 1755, at 9 h. 40 m. local time. The first lasted seven minutes, destroyed Lisbon and caused remarkable sea-waves in such distant regions as Scotland and Sweden. The second at 10 h. engulfed the Cays Depreda with the people on it and the vessels near it so that none of them were seen again, and altogether upwards of fifty thousand people lost their lives on that occasion.
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Earthquake in Spain. Nature 142, 1112 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421112b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421112b0