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1980 Earthquake in Basilicata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Antonio Molfese
Antonio Molfese
Affiliation:
Health Coordination Center for the Areas Devastated by the Earthquake, Italian Department of Health, Italy.
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On November 23rd, 1980 at 7:34 p.m. a violent earthquake, 6 on the Richter scale, hit the South of Italy, at precisely the Regions of Campania and Basilicata. The shock lasted 80 seconds, causing death and destruction.

Basilicata, one of Italy's Southern Regions, has already been hit by several other earthquakes in the past, which seriously damaged its population and territory. It is a most mountainous region, with the only exception being a very small plain stretching towards the sea.

Type
Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 96 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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