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<p>[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 7703159, member: 5682"]Thank you for reading my post and responding to this thread:</p><p><br /></p><p>I will develop my theory that many thousands did die when I can find time to respond.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I do, the excellent Professor Tuck of Classics from Miami University agrees with your point:</p><p><br /></p><p>“Public infrastructure projects that sprung up about this time, likely to accommodate the sudden influx of refugees, also provided clues about resettlement, Tuck said. That's because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived <a href="https://www.livescience.com/27871-mount-vesuvius-pompeii.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com/27871-mount-vesuvius-pompeii.html" rel="nofollow">Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption</a>.“</p><p><br /></p><p>“One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign. "They put up an inscription to him there," Tuck told Live Science. ‘They said he was from the colony of Pompeii, then he lived in Naples and then he joined the army.’”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/amp/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com/amp/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/amp/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I assume neither you nor Professor Tuck live in a place like California where earthquakes and tremors are just a part of daily living:</p><p><br /></p><p>During <b>2020</b>, <b>California</b> was shaken by 1 quake of magnitude 6.5, 12 <b>quakes</b> between 5.0 and 6.0, 101 <b>quakes</b> between 4.0 and 5.0, 903 <b>quakes</b> between 3.0 and 4.0, and 6794 <b>quakes</b> between 2.0 and 3.0. There were also 64561 <b>quakes</b> below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: Earthquake Archive</p><p><br /></p><p>Living in such a setting as this, most of us have resigned ourselves to the fact “the Big One” will occur someday soon, but few of us are prepared for the aftermath and even fewer of us have escape plans.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be continued….[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 7703159, member: 5682"]Thank you for reading my post and responding to this thread: I will develop my theory that many thousands did die when I can find time to respond. Before I do, the excellent Professor Tuck of Classics from Miami University agrees with your point: “Public infrastructure projects that sprung up about this time, likely to accommodate the sudden influx of refugees, also provided clues about resettlement, Tuck said. That's because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived [URL='https://www.livescience.com/27871-mount-vesuvius-pompeii.html']Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption[/URL].“ “One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign. "They put up an inscription to him there," Tuck told Live Science. ‘They said he was from the colony of Pompeii, then he lived in Naples and then he joined the army.’” [URL]https://www.livescience.com/amp/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html[/URL] I assume neither you nor Professor Tuck live in a place like California where earthquakes and tremors are just a part of daily living: During [B]2020[/B], [B]California[/B] was shaken by 1 quake of magnitude 6.5, 12 [B]quakes[/B] between 5.0 and 6.0, 101 [B]quakes[/B] between 4.0 and 5.0, 903 [B]quakes[/B] between 3.0 and 4.0, and 6794 [B]quakes[/B] between 2.0 and 3.0. There were also 64561 [B]quakes[/B] below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel. Source: Earthquake Archive Living in such a setting as this, most of us have resigned ourselves to the fact “the Big One” will occur someday soon, but few of us are prepared for the aftermath and even fewer of us have escape plans. To be continued….[/QUOTE]
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