The deaths of 600 sheep from "tainted air" in the vicinity of Pompeii, reported by Seneca the Younger, leads volcanologist Haraldur Sigurðsson to compare them to similar deaths of sheep in Iceland from pools of volcanic carbon dioxide and to speculate that the earthquake of AD 62 was related to new activity by Mount Vesuvius.
A morte de 600 ovellas por "aire viciado" nos arredores de Pompeia reportado por Séneca levou a Haraldur Sigurdsson a comparalas coas mortes similares de ovellas en Islandia polo dióxido de carbono das piscinas volcánicas e para especular que o terremoto do 62 estaba relacionada coa nova actividade polo Vesuvio.