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It is the most devastating earthquake measured in mainland France since the installation of the first seismological stations at the turn of the 20th century.
On June 11, 1909, around 9:15 p.m., an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale shook the north of the Bouches-du-Rhône, between Salon-de-Provence and Aix-en-Provence, in the chain of the Trevaresse.
In 1967 again, the Arette earthquake in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques caused the death of one person, but the disaster of 1909 was much more deadly: 46 dead, 250 injured and thousands of homes destroyed, including 1,500 in Aix-en- Provence.
The damage is enormous in Lambesc, and Rognes where there are the most victims, but the communes of Salon, Pélisanne, Saint-Cannat, Puy-Sainte-Réparade, Venelles also pay a heavy price.
Provencal houses, farms, churches, castles,
A pile of rubble
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