Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Italy: Messina Straits · about 1,500 deaths
Natural disaster
1783 Messina Straits earthquake
Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Italy: Messina Straits · about 1,500 deaths
- 6 February 1783
- Europe
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