In May 1976, a strong earthquake destroyed a large area of Friuli, in the north-east of Italy, with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X. 978 people died, 2400 were injured and 157000 were left homeless. At the time my father lived in Buja, a small town near the epicenter of the earthquake and was 25 years-old. Today, Forty years later, what was born out of those ruins? What is the identity and landscape of “post-earthquake generation”? Can the echo of a catastrophic event that radically changed the history and landscape of a territory have visible repercussions on generations who did not experience the event, but only created the enviroment later on? These are some of the questions that move this project, at times autobiographical, at times kind of anthropology-fiction, on the lost generation born after the '76 Earthquake in this lands. Earthquakes turns an austere and distant gaze only on what was born later: the civil architectures built after 1976 and the children of those who lived through the earthquake and rebuilt the territory. The past re-enters only through some photographic plates from an archive of the Genio Civile, with a selection of architectures that have not collapsed.