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Quake that battered ancient Rome is traced to its lair
Nature ^
| February 8, 2019
| Tectonics (2019)
Posted on 03/02/2019 1:06:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A fault in the Apennine Mountains wreaked damage on structures including the Colosseum.
The geological fault responsible for a series of Italian earthquakes in 2016 might also have caused a quake mentioned in ancient accounts of fifth-century Rome.
Until 2016, scientists had considered the 30-kilometre-long Mount Vettore fault in the central Apennine Mountains to be dormant. But between August and October that year, it generated three big earthquakes; the first killed nearly 300 people.
To explore the faults history, a team led by Paolo Galli at the Department of Civil Protection in Rome dug trenches across it to look for soil disturbances caused by past earthquakes. The researchers found evidence of 6 big quakes in the past 9,000 years.
One of those probably occurred in the middle of the fifth century AD. It could be the same earthquake that, according to medieval historians, damaged the Colosseum and other buildings in Rome in AD 443.
On average, the Mount Vettore fault has generated quakes greater than magnitude 6.5 every 1,800 years. In retrospect, the authors write, the 2016 earthquakes shouldnt have been so surprising.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeology; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; italy; mountvettore; mountvettorefault; paologalli; romanempire
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posted on
03/02/2019 1:06:42 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Yeppers, looks like a mountainous fault valley that hasn’t been swept by glaciers. Yet.
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posted on
03/02/2019 8:02:31 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
03/02/2019 1:50:27 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Earthquakes are the less talented cousin of a real catastrophe.
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posted on
03/02/2019 1:50:32 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Trump’s fault.
Balcones fault was Bush’s fault.
My only fault is rambling on about faults.
5.56mm
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posted on
03/02/2019 1:55:36 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
(DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/02/2019 1:59:08 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
To: SunkenCiv
Lteam led by Paolo Galli at the Department of Civil Protection in Rome dug trenches across it to look for soil disturbances caused by past earthquakes. The researchers found evidence of 6 big quakes in the past 9,000 years. Most surprisingly, researchers found that 5 of the last 6 quakes were caused by researchers digging trenches to look for soil disturbances caused by past quakes.
To: Larry Lucido
If nobody had trenched it, why did scientists think it was dormant....?
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posted on
03/02/2019 2:13:25 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: SunkenCiv
The Romans should sue for damages.
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posted on
03/02/2019 2:25:26 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
If all the descendants of the citizens of the Roman Empire got involved in a class-action suit... hmm... each share would probably be under five bucks. ;^)
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posted on
03/02/2019 2:36:49 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: mewzilla
Because vulcanology is more about feelings than about science.
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posted on
03/02/2019 2:42:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Yeah but...
It’d teach those fault lines a lesson.
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posted on
03/02/2019 2:49:53 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
Here in Michigan we have no-fault lines.
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:08:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Meaning if you toe the line you can’t be blamed?
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:10:07 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
Around here, we're all cereal killers.
![Quake!](https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal/quakes_two.jpg)
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:13:05 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL!
Ok. It’s official. You win this round.
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:14:12 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
Thanks, your praise bowls me over.
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:36:50 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: Grimmy
Yes, I eat up praise with a spoon..
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:47:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: Grimmy
"Round", so, appropriate that there was boxing involved in that picture.
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:47:28 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: Grimmy
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posted on
03/02/2019 3:47:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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