Imagine you’re in Lisbon, Portugal, on Saturday November 1, 1755. It’s early morning on All Saint’s Day, a feast day that celebrates all the saints of the Catholic Church.

In fact, the scenes in Turkey are tragically similar to those reported on Nov. 1, 1755, when a massive earthquake hit Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, at approximately 9:45 a.m.

Called the great quake of Lisbon, ... 1755, the southwestern coast of Europe was hit by a magnitude 8.5 earthquake and its subsequent tsunami.