THE
GREAT LISBON
EARTHQUAKE
This
great catastrophe though not as strong and deadly as other earthquakes, it did
have a significant impact on the human thinking, which moved from the
occurrence of such events as supernatural signals to a more neutral proto-scientific
causation and also signaled the birth of modern seismology.(TsuInfo
Alert)
Exactly
250 years back on November 1st, Sunday, the All Saint’s Catholic
Holiday had a fine morning with a perfect serene clear sky and a lustrous sun
shine. Though the exact magnitude of earthquake are not known, but estimated to
be 8.5 to 9.0 on Richter scale with the epicenter as per literature being 38.0°N,
9.0°W in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 km west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent.
The earthquake had struck Lisbon,
Portugal between
9.20 AM and 9.30 AM …
