Abstract
At about 4 a.m. (3 a.m., G.M.T.) on October 18, a destructive earthquake occurred in northern Venetia and caused considerable loss of life and damage to property. The centre seems to have been close to Sacile, which lies about thirty-seven miles north of Venice and twenty miles south-east of Belluno. The area of damage is not less than forty miles in length and includes Belluno, where nearly all the old buildings were injured, Borgato Zago and Conegliano. The shock is said to have lasted twenty seconds and was felt at Milan, 166 miles to the west of Sacile, so that the disturbed area may contain about ninety thousand square miles. On June 29, 1873, there was a similarly destructive earthquake in the Belluno district, which was carefully studied by Hofer, Bittner and others. According to these investigators, the epicentre lay about two miles to the east or south-east of Belluno. Hofer assigned the origin of the earthquake to movements along two faults, one directed nearly north-east and south-east, and the other east, from the epicentre. He estimated the depth of the focus at 7-91 km., or very nearly five miles. It would thus seem that, in the recent earthquake, the centre was displaced some miles to the south-east to a point on, or not far from, the north-easterly fault marked out by Hofer.
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Belluno Earthquake of October 18. Nature 138, 713 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138713b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138713b0