Word: vesuvius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...
...Next largest active volcanoes: Alaska's Katmai, 8.4 mi.; Hawaii's Kilauea, 8 mi. Vesuvius measures about one mile...
Readers of Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii remember the destruction of ancient Rome's shore resort, by earthquake and eruption of Vesuvius in 63 and 79 A. D. Since then Central and Southern Italy has been shaken by innumerable minor and six major earthquakes. The 1456 quake wiped out 40,000 people in Naples, that of 1626, 70,000 more. In September 1693, 100,000 died in Sicily. Buildings fell and graveyards filled again in 1783. Many an Italian oldster remembers the horror of Messina in 1908. Obscured by War news was the quake of 1915 when...
...divide earthquakes into two main groups, those of volcanic origin (generally local in character), and what they call tectonic earthquakes: slipping and faulting of the earth's crust either from subsurface erosion or (as many now hold) a result of the gravital pull of the sun and moon. Though Vesuvius had been in mild eruption for a fortnight before last week's quake, Italy's greatest seismologist, Professor Giovanni Agamennone, insisted that last week's cataclysm belonged to the latter class...
...earthquake was due to tectonic causes, that is, it was the result of the enormous and persistent work of erosion done by the incessant flow of great bodies of underground water. We must absolutely exclude the theory that the quake was due to the present activity of Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic centers in the stricken zone gave not the slightest sign of activity at the time of the quake...