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Calabrian Earthquake Crevasses, 1783
People and animals struggle among deep openings and fractured blocks of earth below a distant hill. The caption identifies Calabrian peasants engulfed by crevasses in 1783. Donnelly includes the image among his examples of catastrophic ground movement. The separated pieces of terrain make the danger visible as a collapse of the ground beneath ordinary rural life.
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Illustrator not identified. "Calabrian Earthquake Crevasses, 1783" [editorial title]. In Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly. Eleventh edition, undated imprint; copyright 1882, undated edition, Harper & Brothers. Source scan leaf 55. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0071-0053
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Illustrator not identified. Calabrian Earthquake Crevasses, 1783. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Scan leaf 55. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0071-0053