Everyday quakes, fatal calm
Minor tremors rattled Campania in the four days before the blast, but locals felt they were “not particularly alarming.”Mount Vesuvius 79 AD: Warnings People Ignored
When theaters shook
After a major quake years earlier and another while Nero performed, he kept singing; the theater collapsed soon after it was evacuated.Mount Vesuvius 79 AD: Warnings People Ignored
