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THE earthquake which visited the south-east flank of Etna on May 8 is evidently one of the strongest of the local shocks which occur so frequently within the bounds of the volcano. Unlike the Messina earthquake of 1908, the shock was heralded by many slight tremors in the surrounding district, several having been felt every day since April 25. But for these warnings, the loss of life might have been far greater than it was, though more than 150 persons are reported to have been killed and about 500 injured. The villages of Linera, Passapomo, Pennisi, and Zerbati are completely ruined; Cosentini, S. Caterina, and S. Maria Vergina are half-destroyed; while about a dozen other villages from Zafferana and S. Venerina on the north to Trecastagni on the south are seriously damaged.
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DAVISON, C. The Sicilian Earthquake of May 8 . Nature 93, 272–273 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093272a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/093272a0