Mount Vesuvius is a 1,281 metres (4,203 ft) volcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 5.6 miles (9 km) east of Naples.
A massive volcanic explosion of Mount Vesuvius destroyed The Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy in AD 79.
Before Mount Vesuvius exploded in 79 AD, people who lived nearby did not even know that it was a volcano, because it had not erupted for 600 years.
The eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum beneath mud, lava and ash until they were rediscovered and excavated in the 18th century.
Over 1,000 people died in the eruption, but exact numbers are unknown.
The AD 79 eruption released 100,000 times the energy of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The eruption changed the way the Sarno River flowed, and raised the sea beach. Because of this, Pompeii ceased to be on the river nor next to the coast.
Pliny the Younger described in two letters to to the historian Tacitus the mushroom cloud from the volcano as being in the shape of umbrella pine, a tree commonly found in the region. The eruption killed his uncle.
Such explosive eruptions, sending molten rock 15 to 20 miles high are known as Plinian.
Vesuvius has erupted more than 30 times since AD 79 but the richness of the soil after an eruption always led to new settlements around its base.
The eruption in 512 was so severe that people living on its slopes were granted tax exemption by Theodoric the Great, the Gothic king of Italy.
An eruption of Vesuvius on April 5, 1906 killed over 100 people and ejected the most lava ever recorded from a Vesuvian eruption. It ended plans for Italy to hold the Olympics in 1908, which were moved to London.
The most recent eruption was on March 18, 1944, which destroyed the villages of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Massa di Somma, and Ottaviano.
Vesuvius is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years.
The entire mountain of Vesuvius was named an Italian National Park in 1995.
Daily Express
A massive volcanic explosion of Mount Vesuvius destroyed The Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy in AD 79.
Before Mount Vesuvius exploded in 79 AD, people who lived nearby did not even know that it was a volcano, because it had not erupted for 600 years.
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| Pompeii, with Vesuvius towering above By Qfl247, |
The eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum beneath mud, lava and ash until they were rediscovered and excavated in the 18th century.
Over 1,000 people died in the eruption, but exact numbers are unknown.
The AD 79 eruption released 100,000 times the energy of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The eruption changed the way the Sarno River flowed, and raised the sea beach. Because of this, Pompeii ceased to be on the river nor next to the coast.
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| Vesuvius erupting. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection |
Pliny the Younger described in two letters to to the historian Tacitus the mushroom cloud from the volcano as being in the shape of umbrella pine, a tree commonly found in the region. The eruption killed his uncle.
Such explosive eruptions, sending molten rock 15 to 20 miles high are known as Plinian.
Vesuvius has erupted more than 30 times since AD 79 but the richness of the soil after an eruption always led to new settlements around its base.
The eruption in 512 was so severe that people living on its slopes were granted tax exemption by Theodoric the Great, the Gothic king of Italy.
An eruption of Vesuvius on April 5, 1906 killed over 100 people and ejected the most lava ever recorded from a Vesuvian eruption. It ended plans for Italy to hold the Olympics in 1908, which were moved to London.
The most recent eruption was on March 18, 1944, which destroyed the villages of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Massa di Somma, and Ottaviano.
Vesuvius is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years.
The entire mountain of Vesuvius was named an Italian National Park in 1995.
Daily Express
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