The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions

The May 1448 earthquake, the last destructive one that took place in Catalonia in the Middle Ages, was known chiefly from several chronistic and narrative medieval sources. To these sources I add new previously unknown data proceeding from documentary archival sources in Barcelona, and other data th...

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Autor: Salicrú Lluch, Roser
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1995
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Historical seismicity
Catalonia
Mediaeval sources
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spelling The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactionsSalicrú Lluch, RoserHistorical seismicityCataloniaMediaeval sourcesThe May 1448 earthquake, the last destructive one that took place in Catalonia in the Middle Ages, was known chiefly from several chronistic and narrative medieval sources. To these sources I add new previously unknown data proceeding from documentary archival sources in Barcelona, and other data that up to now have been wrongly considered as a consequence of the weak quake recorded in September 1450. They allow us to locate the epicentre in the Valles Oriental, around Llinars, to deny the existence of two almost simultaneous earthquakes, and to extend the range of the earthquake damage, to pinpoint them better and to suppose that the effects of the 1448 earthquake were more important than we had previously thought. All this information leads to several reflections on compulsory critical analysis of historical seismic documentary sources in order for them to be useful to historical seismicity. Finally, by the opposition of the three kinds of documentary sources that refer to the damage caused by the earthquake in the township of Mataró, I show how natural catastrophes could be manipulated, and the skill of a society in exploiting them to deal with an adverse situation.Peer reviewedIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica201220121995info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://hdl.handle.net/10261/55725reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://www.earth-prints.org/bitstream/2122/1781/1/04%20lluch.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/557252026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
title The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
spellingShingle The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
Salicrú Lluch, Roser
Historical seismicity
Catalonia
Mediaeval sources
title_short The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
title_full The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
title_fullStr The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
title_full_unstemmed The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
title_sort The 1448 earthquake in Catalonia. Some effects and local reactions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Salicrú Lluch, Roser
author Salicrú Lluch, Roser
author_facet Salicrú Lluch, Roser
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Historical seismicity
Catalonia
Mediaeval sources
topic Historical seismicity
Catalonia
Mediaeval sources
description The May 1448 earthquake, the last destructive one that took place in Catalonia in the Middle Ages, was known chiefly from several chronistic and narrative medieval sources. To these sources I add new previously unknown data proceeding from documentary archival sources in Barcelona, and other data that up to now have been wrongly considered as a consequence of the weak quake recorded in September 1450. They allow us to locate the epicentre in the Valles Oriental, around Llinars, to deny the existence of two almost simultaneous earthquakes, and to extend the range of the earthquake damage, to pinpoint them better and to suppose that the effects of the 1448 earthquake were more important than we had previously thought. All this information leads to several reflections on compulsory critical analysis of historical seismic documentary sources in order for them to be useful to historical seismicity. Finally, by the opposition of the three kinds of documentary sources that refer to the damage caused by the earthquake in the township of Mataró, I show how natural catastrophes could be manipulated, and the skill of a society in exploiting them to deal with an adverse situation.
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