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While searching the Vatican's historical records, a geologist made a surprise discovery: a note in a Jewish prayer book describing a swarm of previously unknown earthquakes in 15th century Italy. Seismologists say the discovery could help predict earthquakes today.
Galli was searching the Vatican Library for historical records from 1456, when a region farther south had been struck by a later swarm of earthquakes. Instead, his searches turned up the note, also written in Hebrew, that described the earlier earthquake swarm. The translated description of the 1446 swarm was"extremely brief, but vivid and full of pathos," he said."In just eight lines, the chronicler tells us that the numerous earthquakes from March to August had brought down many houses in Camerino, as well as in several other settlements around it. Hundreds of survivors moved from the country to Camerino, to help the people there and bring them wine, food and all the supplies they had saved from the ruins.
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