The Wolves Came at Night

This evocative article in the NYT, about an earthquake in 1915 in the same region of Italy as Monday's, is well worth a look. Tidbit:

THE wolves came at night, crazed by the scent of lost sheep without shepherds and bodies buried beneath the rubble. In the early hours of Jan. 13, 1915, an earthquake had rocked the rugged Abruzzo region of Italy. In Pescina, birthplace of the writer Ignazio Silone, 3,500 of the town’s 5,000 residents had perished in a matter of 30 seconds.