The great earthquake that suddenly destroyed Lisbon in November 1755 was perhaps the most disastrous natural phenomenon to strike Europe since the Mt. Vesuvius explosion of the first century—at maybe 9 on the Richter scale it virtually leveled the largest of the continent’s great capitals, with the immediate deaths of perhaps 50,000 people and the More
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