Pompeii, 17 years earlier
- - Oh, good! In the year 62, there was an earthquake of between 5 and 6.1 on the Ritcher scale near Pompeii and Hercules.
These two cities were the most affected, according to a relief found in the house of Lucio Cecilio Jokundo. 17 years later, when Vesuvius erupted, almost all reconstruction works were completed, but some buildings were still in the process of renovation.
Today, the earthquake would help predict the eruption a few years later, but at that time they did not understand the seismic movements. Séneca Gaztea described in the sixth volume of Naturales quaestiones the earthquake of 62 as the one that caused the air to move.
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