From Inverse, July 19, 2024 CE:
Scientists Discover A Lost Truth About What Actually Happened At Pompeii
The destruction wasn’t just from an eruption.
In the summer of 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius blew sky high. The fatal blast smothered the estimated 2,000 inhabitants of Pompeii in ash. For centuries, the tale of Pompeii’s destruction was one of solely volcanic eruption. But that may not be the whole story. Recent findings in the heart of Pompeii paint a picture of even more catastrophe, one that may have permitted survivors — at least temporarily.
Volcanological, anthropological, and archaeological analysis, including two skeletons and one demolished building suggests that in addition to an eruption, Pompeii suffered a simultaneous earthquake, altering the narrative of volcanic destruction. Researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Pompeii Archaeological Park are the first to find evidence of this double whammy. Their paper, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, details the discovery.
“Our study provides an updated perspective of the destruction of Pompeii,” first author Domenico Sparice, a volcanologist at the INGV-Osservatorio Vesuviano, tells Inverse. These updates spell out even more carnage wrought by earthquakes in this apocalyptic scenario.
The evidence comes from the central part of Pompeii, known as the Insula dei Casti Amanti (Insula of the Chaste Lovers), a block named for a fresco of two lovers kissing modestly. Within the Insula is the Casa dei Pittori al Lavoro (House of the Painters at Work), where Sparice and his team found remnants of destruction that were inconsistent with an eruption. The structural damage appeared more aligned with an earthquake. Two newly excavated, adjacent rooms in this house — as well as the remains they entomb — demonstrate that it wasn’t the eruption alone that wreaked havoc.
Discovered in mid-2023, two skeletons belonging to males around 50 years old depict the horrifying fate of surviving a volcanic eruption only to perish by earthquake....
....MUCH MORE
Shades of
2011 Tōhoku earthquake was followed by a 40.5 meter (133 ft) tsunami, we saw this: "Typhoon Approaching Nuclear Plant Hit by Earthquake, Tsunami".
Is it any wonder that Germany accelerated the dismantling of their entire nuclear power program? The risk of a Baltic earthquake, tsunami, typhoon triple whammy, though vanishingly small, is not zero. You can't be too careful. Precautionary Principle and all that.
See also the All Saints Day 1755 earthquake, tsunami and fire that devastated Lisbon.
Of course it wasn't All Saints Day across the water in Morocco, it was 27 Muharram 1169.
