Italy Tsunami

[ATB_roo]

Apparently Italy it at risk from a tsunami, does any one know why?

[tartanwiz]

Italy is a volcanic country on a fracture zone.  There are three active volcanoes: Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli, and the country suffers from occasional serious earthquakes.  An offshore undersea earthquake, or a volcanic eruption on one of its islands, could cause a tsunami on the mainland.

[Peter Pedant]

However Pliny, in AD 78 did not mention a tsunami ( I wonder what the Latin for tiday wave is ) in his account of the Vesuvius eruption that engulfed Herculaneum and Pompeii.

BUT if you go to Pozzuoli (ancient Puteoli), the ancient temple and forum is under a metre or so of water as the shore line has descended (?subduction)