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{{main|Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD}}
In 62 AD the city was hit by a violent earthquake that affected the whole region, causing considerable damage to the buildings and creating the need for restoration work, which was never finished.{{cn|date = January 2024}}
▲</ref> written by [[Pliny the Younger|his nephew]], Pliny the Elder was at the other side of the bay in [[Misenum]] when the eruption of 79 AD started. He sailed by [[galley]] across the bay, partly to observe the eruption more closely, and partly to rescue people from the coast near the volcano.
Pliny died at Stabiae the following day
{{cite book |author1=Francis, Peter |author2=Oppenheimer, Clive| name-list-style=amp | year=2004 |title=Volcanoes |location = Oxford, England | publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0199254699}}{{page needed | date = January 2024}}</ref>{{full | date = January 2024}}{{verification needed | date = January 2024}} The very diluted outer edge of this surge reached Stabiae and left two centimetres of fine ash on top of the immensely thick aerially-deposited ''[[tephra]]'' which further protected the underlying remains.{{cn | date = January 2024}}{{verification needed | date = January 2024}}
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