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Earthquake hits central Italy

An earthquake, measuring 6.2 ± 0.016 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy. Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, with its hypocentre at a depth of 4 ± 1 km, approximately 75 km southeast of Perugia and 45 km north of L'Aquila, in an area near the borders of the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche regions. 299 people had been killed.

Earthquake strikes Myanmar

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Myanmar 25 km west of Chauk in 2016 with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI. The estimated depth was 84.1 km. Tremors from the earthquake were felt in Yangon, in the eastern cities of Patna, Guwahati, and Kolkata in India, in Bangkok in Thailand and in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

South Napa earthquake

The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the North San Francisco Bay Area. At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake was located to the south of Napa.

Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash

Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano in modern-day Italy, erupted in 79 AD in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history. Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, a Roman administrator, and poet. The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruptions.