Valletta’s breakwater protects the Grand Harbour 6. The seabed appeared to be pushing the water inland to the shore.
Such was the intensity of the rain that by the end of the day, 25.4 centimetres of rain (10 inches) had fallen 3.Īt 07:45, the sea around Malta became agitated 6. (A cyclone travels at 38–54 knots which is 44–62 mph or 70–100 km/h.) I’ve experienced this kind of weather in Malta and its safe to guess that most people stayed inside. A cyclone rushed from the sea making everything miserable 3. People awoke in Malta to find rain and hail beating down on them. Luckily there was no damage to buildings or construction in Malta 6 7. The University of Malta’s seismograph was, ‘ thrown out of gear by the violence of its own action’ 6 7. At 05:21:50, the main earthquake hit the Maltese islands 6 7. People reported a preliminary tremor at about 01:00 6. The following is an account of how the earthquake affected Malta, and how the Maltese learnt about things. I refer to these two newspapers as ‘The Chronicle’ and ‘MESD’ for short. (Yet, most international news in this paper is from British newspaper sources.) They had a daily print run of 800 copies 5. Even so, it’s possible to discern a slight resentment towards the British rulers of the islands. It was written for those Maltese whose main language was Italian. ‘Malta e sue dipendenze’ (Malta and its dependencies) was an Italian-language newspaper. It was the most popular paper with a daily print run of 1,000 copies 5. It presented a pro-United Kingdom view of the world. ‘The Daily Chronicle’ was in English, written for the British community in Malta. The two main newspapers of the day reflected the main split in society. Sicily and Malta ( (c) Google) – Mediterranean sea
I went to Malta’s National Library to find out more. I’ve read many accounts of the earthquake’s effects in Sicily but there is little about the effect on Malta. Malta is only 150 km (90 miles) away and it suffered from the earthquake too. In the streets, persons were to be seen half-naked, semi-conscious, as though they had lost their senses 4.”
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But what was our grief and horror when we looked towards the land? The wharf had sunk 10 feet the whole of the Palazzata facing the Marina was half-tottering: then a dense cloud of dust arose as the mass went crumbling to pieces! In an instant the port was full of corpses and wreckage. “ At 5:25 am we were awakened by a violent and prolonged shock, which made the ship shake and tremble as though an explosion had occurred. L’Avvenire which was in Messina’s port provided an eyewitness account: The sea rose thirty feet (9 metres) and ploughed into Messina and Reggio Calabria destroying everything in its way 3. Its epicentre was the Straits of Messina which is the channel between Sicily and the Italian mainland.
In 1908, a major earthquake hit Sicily causing a tsunami in Malta.Īt 05:20 on Monday 28 December 1908, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit Sicily 1. Malta is close to a major earthquake fault line. One side effect of an earthquake in a coastal region is a tsunami that rips through the sea around it.
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