these words by the italian poet petrarch described as strange storm over the city of naples in the 14th century. 700 years later vulcanologist mauer a rosy was intrigued by petrov's description grossi has worked on naples emergency plan in case of mt vesuvius erupts most tsunamis are generated by sea quakes and fault lines but they can also be triggered by volcanic eruptions. they seem honest building audio the quest of a truck witnessed an exceptional phenomenon that struck the city of make us. man he was asleep not far from the point when he heard such loud strange noises that he thought it was an earthquake there are more than federal form think that dr patrick rushed to the harbor like so many other people. and saw with his own eyes that it had been completely devastated last encourage me to give us that see all of that. aside from his descriptions of the destruction petra also wrote of hundreds of dead and dozens of sunken ships tomorrow rosie it's obvious that the strange storm was a tsunami. it's not a level car nope i think at that time petrarch could not have known that it was