HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Richter Magnitude Scale, Triage
7 Jan 2018
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Empire of portugal: centre of global trade in gold, spices, slaves, tobacco, gold etc , has become the centre of portugal empire in all aspects religion and economy, has huge wealth and crushing poverty. Day to attend mass: religious day, a ood of people come to celebrate. 10 am is the most popular mass: earthquake is between 8. 5-9. 2 on the richter scale, earthquake is seen as a judgement day because it falls on religious day, earthquake causes tsunami. The waves extend 250 km across the surface of the ocean: reaches speed of 800-1000 kms, waves can slowdown but build in height. Fatalities but not physical damage to the city: resonates the idea in peoples mind that the tsunami and earthquake was biblical and was meant to happen. The way to light house was through lamps or candles as result res start due to the shaking that occurred. In a few hours, it has turned to re storm.
