1755 Lisbon earthquake a benevolent deity. The Lisbon disaster provided a counterexample. As Theodor Adorno wrote, "[t]he earthquake of Lisbon sufficed to cure Voltaire of the theodicy of Leibniz" ("Negative Dialectics" 361). In the later twentieth century, the 1755 earthquake has sometimes been compared to the Holocaust as a catastrophe that transformed European culture and philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also influenced by the devastation following the earthquake, whose severity he believed was due to too many people living within the close quarters of the city. Rousseau used the earthquake as an argument against cities as part of his desire for a more naturalistic
2010 Salta earthquake 2010 Salta earthquake The 2010 Salta earthquake occurred on February 27 at in Salta Province, Argentina and had a magnitude of 6.3. It occurred less than 12 hours after the far larger 2010 Chile earthquake, which killed over 500 people. It was initially thought to be an aftershock of the Chile earthquake, but scientists later established that the earthquakes were unrelated. The epicenter was about 15 miles north of the city of Salta. The quake killed two people, and injured dozens (possibly up to 100 people). The damage was not great, but small buildings and slums were easily destroyed. The