(ANSA) – TRIESTE, 06 MAY – First a warning shock, strong but short. Then, at 9 pm on May 6, 1976, the catastrophic one, a shoulder of magnitude 6.4 that lasted an interminable minute. The Friulians defined it, and still remember it, with the name of Orcolat, the earthquake-ogre that 46 years ago destroyed a large part of the hilly Friuli, bringing death and pain and striking in particular the provinces of Udine and Pordenone.
That earthquake, with about a thousand dead, over three thousand injured, tens of thousands of people left homeless, marked a passage, a demarcation between Friuli as it had been up to that moment, and as it would have been afterwards. The Friulians rolled up their sleeves and day after day they rebuilt an entire region, the so-called “Friuli model”, “where it was and how it was”, indeed, better in some cases.
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Source: Ansa
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