1639 Amatrice earthquake
{{Infobox earthquake
|title= 1639 Amatrice earthquake
|pre-1900 = yes
|local-date= {{Start date text|October 7, 1639}}
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| lat=42.639
| long=13.261
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|magnitude = 6.01±0.36 {{M|w|link=yes}}{{Cite web |title=1639 10 07 – Amatrice |url=https://emidius.eu/SHEEC/maps/query_eq/external_call.php?eq_id=958 |website=The SHARE European Earthquake Catalogue (SHEEC) 1000-1899 |access-date=1 May 2020}}
|intensity = {{MMI|IX}} – {{MMI|X}}
|depth=
|location={{Coord|42.639|13.261|display=inline,title}}{{cite web|url=http://storing.ingv.it|title=CFTI4Med, Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy (461 B.C.-1997) and Mediterranean Area (760 B.C.-1500)|last=Guidoboni|first=Emanuela|author2=Ferrari G.|author3=Mariotti D.|author4=Comastri A.|author5=Tarabusi G.|author6=Valensise G.|name-list-style=amp|year=2007|publisher=INGV-SGA|accessdate=July 22, 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110722035629/http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/| archivedate= July 22, 2011 }}
|countries affected = Italy, Lazio
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The 1639 Amatrice earthquake{{cite book|author=Carlo Tiberi Romano|title=Nuova, e vera relazione del terribile, e spaventoso terremoto successo nella Città della Matrice, e suo Stato, Con patimento ancora di Accumulo, e Luoghi circonvicini, sotto li [7] del presente mese di ottobre 1639|year=1639|location=Roma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYNmAAAAcAAJ|language=it}} occurred on 7 October near Amatrice,{{cite web|author=Enrico Giustiniani|title=Il terremoto di Amatrice del 7 ottobre 1639|website=giustiniani.info|url=http://www.giustiniani.info/terremoto.html|access-date=25 August 2016|language=it}} in the upper valley of the river Tronto, at the time part of the Kingdom of Naples, now Italy.
History
The princes Orsini left the city destroyed by the earthquake,{{cite news|author=Antonello Guerrera|title=La tragedia di Amatrice e Accumoli e quel 'terremoto gemello' del 1639|website=la Repubblica|date=24 August 2016|url=http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/08/24/news/amatrice_terremoto_gemello_1639_centro_italia_roma-146532551/|language=it}} whose shock lasted 15 minutes and caused about 500 deaths (although many bodies remained under the rubble). Damage was estimated between 400,000 and 1 million scudi of the time.{{cite web|title=08 10 1639 earthquake|website=CFTI – Catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy|url=http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00963.html|access-date=2016-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011193555/http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00963.html|archive-date=2016-10-11|url-status=dead}}
The next 14 October there was a strong aftershock.{{cite news |title=Terremoto Centro Italia, Amatrice e Accumoli già distrutte da un sisma simile nel 1639|date=24 August 2016|website=HuffPost|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/08/24/terremoto-1639-amatrice-accumoli_n_11672906.html|language=it}}
Many inhabitants fled to the countryside, where tents were set up, while others found refuge in the church of San Domenico. Among the buildings destroyed or badly damaged, there were: the princes Orsini's palace{{Citation|first=Guglielmo|last=Manitta|date=2016-08-25|title=Amatrice, Accumoli, Arquata e Pescara del Tronto e i terremoti del 1639, 1672, 1703, 1730|access-date=26 August 2016|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306505058}} (that at the time of the earthquake they were out of town), the Palazzo del Reggimento (Regiment's palace), the church of the Holy Crucifix, and other houses. Rosaries and processions were organized by the people to invoke the end of earthquakes. There were also heavy losses of the cattle (the main source of income at the time), which forced the population to migrate to Rome and Ascoli Piceno.
The effects of the earthquake were described in detail in a report published by Carlo Tiberi in 1639, subsequently revised and updated in a second edition of the same year.
See also
{{Wikisource|it:Nuova, e vera relazione del terribile, e spaventoso terremoto successo nella città della Matrice|Nuova, e vera relazione del terribile, e spaventoso terremoto successo nella città della Matrice}}
Notes
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Bibliography
- Guglielmo Manitta, Amatrice, Accumoli, [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306505058_Amatrice_Accumoli_Arquata_e_Pescara_del_Tronto_e_i_terremoti_del_1639_1672_1703_1730 Arquata e Pescara del Tronto e i terremoti del 1639, 1672, 1703, 1730], 25 agosto 2016.
- {{cite book|author=Carlo Tiberi|title=Nuova e vera Relazione del Terribile, e Spaventoso Terremoto successo nella Città della Matrice, e suo Stato, con patimento ancora di Accumulo, e Luoghi circonvicini, sotto li 7 del mese d'Ottobre 1639.|year=1639|url=https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Nuova,_e_vera_relazione_del_terribile,_e_spaventoso_terremoto_successo_nella_citt%C3%A0_della_Matrice_-_Versione_critica}}
- {{cite book|author=M. Baratta|title=I terremoti d'Italia. Saggio di storia, geografia e bibliografia sismica italiana|year=1901}}
- {{cite journal|author=M.C. Spadea|author2=M. Vecchi|author3=P. Gardellini|author4=S. Del Mese|title=The Amatrice earthquake of October 8, 1639 (in Atlas of Isoseismal Maps of Italian Earthquakes)|editor=D. Postpischl|publisher=CNR-PFG|journal=Quaderni de "La Ricerca Scientifica"|number=114|volume=2A|page=161}}
External links
- {{cite web|title=7 October 1639 earthquake – Amatrice|website=AHEAD – European Archive of Historical EArthquake Data|url=http://www.emidius.eu/AHEAD/main/info/?eqid=5745}}
- {{cite web|title=08-10-1639 earthquake|website=CFTI – Catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy]|publisher=National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology|url=http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00963.html|access-date=2016-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011193555/http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00963.html|archive-date=2016-10-11|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|title=15-10-1639 earthquake|website=CFTI – Catalogue of strong earthquakes in Italy]|publisher=National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology|url=http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00966.html|access-date=2016-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011194706/http://storing.ingv.it/cfti4med/quakes/00966.html|archive-date=2016-10-11|url-status=dead}}
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