The 1908 Messina Straits Earthquake: Cornerstones and the Need to Step Forward

Editorial| January 04, 2023 The 1908 Messina Straits Earthquake: Cornerstones and the Need to Step Forward Andrea Argnani; Andrea Argnani * 1ISMAR‐CNR, Bologna, Italy *Corresponding author: andrea.argnani@ismar.cnr.it https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0729-2782 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Nicola Alessandro Pino Nicola Alessandro Pino 2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Naples, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1092-7152 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrea Argnani https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0729-2782 * 1ISMAR‐CNR, Bologna, Italy Nicola Alessandro Pino https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1092-7152 2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Naples, Italy *Corresponding author: andrea.argnani@ismar.cnr.it Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 04 Jan 2023 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2023) 94 (2A): 557–561. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220355 Article history First Online: 04 Jan 2023 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Andrea Argnani, Nicola Alessandro Pino; The 1908 Messina Straits Earthquake: Cornerstones and the Need to Step Forward. Seismological Research Letters 2023;; 94 (2A): 557–561. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220355 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search The Mw 7.1 earthquake that on 28 December 1908 struck the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria, facing each other across the Messina Straits, was one of the most destructive events of the past century and one of the deadliest earthquakes in human history, causing a huge death toll, estimated from 60,000 to >100,000 (Bertolaso et al., 2008). None of the large earthquakes that occurred in Europe in the twentieth century, some of them with larger magnitudes (Grünthal and Wahlström, 2012), resulted to be as deadly as the Messina earthquake, which sparked a wave... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.