A note discovered in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book by Paolo Galli reveals a previously unknown earthquake in Italy’s Marche region, offering vital insights into the country’s seismic history and drawing parallels to a similar event in 1799. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
The chance finding of a note in a 15th-century Hebrew prayer book fills an important gap in the historical Italian earthquake record, offering a brief glimpse of a previously unknown earthquake affecting the Marche region in the central Apennines.
Paolo Galli, who found the note in the Apostolic Vatican Library while…
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