First the earthquake that turned the streets into a “hellish landscape”, after the tsunami that killed hundreds of people, and finally the “cruel twist of fate” that caused Lisbon caught fire. A video reconstructs and displays each step of the disaster that has tens of thousands dead in 1755.
The Smithsonian Channel dedicated an episode of his series of documentaries about disasters, Perfect Storms, the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. The episode God’s Wrath (in Portuguese, Wrath of God) was issued in November, but one of his excerpts, showing the disaster reconstruction, has recently become viral. Another video released by the channel also allows to know one of the most drastic measures of the Marquis of Pombal after the devastation.
In the video that was posted on YouTube by the US channel, a partnership between the television network CBS and the group of Smithsonian museums, you can see how, at around 9:40 am on November 1, 1755, the tectonic activity caused the 8.5 earthquake on the Richter scale, which destroyed much of the city was “at the center of an empire world. “
The Smithsonian Channel reconstructs how, after the first moments of destruction caused by the earthquake, the survivors sought to escape for more open spaces along the Tagus river, where they were surprised by the tsunami that followed.
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