Released in November 2014 by the American channel Smithsonian Channel, the simulation now circulating among Portuguese internet is part of a series of episodes entitled “Perfect Storm: The Wrath of God” and explains the devastation of the 1st November 1755.
In this day of All Saints, thousands of people were killed in Lisbon, following an earthquake of 8.5 on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami and a large fire.
The video stresses the earthquake collapsed buildings of the city, which led tens of thousands of people to flee to the waterfront, where a tsunami killed them. To top this “perfect storm”, the candles that had been lit in Lisbon churches to mark the day fell with the motion of the earth and caused a giant fire in the city.
All this made the streets of Lisbon ” hell “and the churches in” death traps “,” kneeling the capital of a global empire, “the channel in the presentation of simulation that shows virtual images of what would be the Portuguese capital in the eighteenth century.
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