AD 62 Pompeii earthquake

When

62

Kind

Event

Coordinates

40.70° N, 14.50° E

Description

A great earthquake damages cities in Campania, including Pompeii (February 5).

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, AD 62 Pompeii earthquake.

Earthquake in Italy in AD 62

On 5 February AD 62, an earthquake of an estimated magnitude of between 5 and 6 and a maximum intensity of IX or X on the Mercalli scale struck the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, severely damaging them. The earthquake may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the same two towns.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un séisme détruit une bonne partie de la cité de Pompéi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la actual Italia, la ciudad de Pompeya, a los pies del volcán Vesubio, es dañada por un fuerte terremoto”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ローマのポンペイ（現在のカラブリア州）で大きな地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page