The Earthquake in the Riviera

Abstract

THOUGH there can be no question as to the amount of damage done by the late earthquake—I am writing in a shed, the hote being destroyed—I think that the violence of the shock has, perhaps been very greatly exaggerated. I have only been able to make a flying visit to this place and to Diano Marina, but I cannot help being struck by the fact that the peculiar architecture is the main cause of the large amount of destruction. Indeed, judging from the small amount of damage done to buildings in which flat or square stones and flat floors have been used, I should doubt whether the shock was much more severe than that which not long ago damaged the brick buildings in East Anglia.