A Magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills over 29,000 people on January 13, 1915. The earthquake struck through the Marsica area in the Province of L’Aquila, Abruzzo, with the epicenter beneath the town of Avezzano, which was reduced to rubble.
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