Tsunamis in Italy and the Mediterranean - Between Perception and Historical Reconstruction

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2023.160302

Walter Palmieri

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Abstract

The tragedies of great earthquake waves in Southeast Asia (Indonesia 2004 and Japan 2011) led to the entry into the common lexicon of a new word - 'tsunami' - which was before then confined within the boundaries of science. The exoticism of the term and the geographical distance of these disasters were both reassuring elements for public opinion in Italy and elsewhere, and several statistical studies show that Italian people have a low level of hazard awareness. Yet many tsunamis have occurred in the Mediterranean Sea, and more specifically along the Italian coast, over the centuries. The aim of this work is therefore to identify the main catastrophic events of the Mare Nostrum and the way these tsunamis were perceived by people at the time.

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意大利和地中海的海啸——在认知和历史重建之间

东南亚(2004年的印度尼西亚和2011年的日本)大地震波的悲剧导致一个新词“海啸”进入了常用词汇，而在此之前，这个词被限制在科学的范围内。这个词的异国情调和这些灾难的地理距离都是让意大利和其他地方的公众舆论放心的因素，一些统计研究表明，意大利人对灾害的认识水平很低。然而，几个世纪以来，地中海，特别是意大利海岸发生了许多海啸。因此，这项工作的目的是确定诺斯特姆海的主要灾难性事件，以及当时人们对这些海啸的看法。

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