Natural Disaster · 1908

Messina, 1908: Why Did the Sea Pull Back Before the Wave?

The sea is pulling back from the harbour. Boats that were floating a minute ago now sit on bare mud, and the harbour floor lies open to the morning air. It's just after five in the morning, the twenty-eighth of December, 1908, in Messina, on the northeast tip of Sicily.

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