Mount Vesuvius is located on Campania, Italy. It is one of several other volcanos that form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a big cone partly bordered by the rim of a summit caldera caused by the breakdown of a former and initially much higher arrangement. The height of the main cone has been continually changed by eruptions but was 4,203 feet in 2010. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted below the Eurasian Plate. Mount Vesuvius is observed as one of the most hazardous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people living nearby and its violent tendency.
Mount Vesuvius might be most known for its eruption in AD 79. That eruption led to the burying and ruin of the Roman cities of Pompeii …show more content…
The morning of the first day was seemingly normal to the only witness to leave a surviving document, who was Pliny the Younger. At midday an explosion flung up a column where ash and pumice began to fall, covering the area. Rescues and escapes happened at this time. Sometime at night pyroclastic flows in the nearby surrounding area of the volcano began. Lights were seen on the peak interpreted as fires. People fled for their lives. The flows were quick moving, thick and very hot, bashing down most structures in their path, cremating or suffocating all inhabitants lingering and changing the landscape, including the coastline. These were accompanied by additional light quakes and a minor tsunami on the Bay of Naples. By late afternoon of the second day, the eruption was over, leaving only haze in the atmosphere. A cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases reaching a height of 21 mile and spewing molten rock reached local towns. By 2003, around 1,044 casts made from imprints of bodies in the pyroclastic surge deposits were found in and around Pompeii. About 40% of the 1,044 were found in ash fall, the majority inside buildings. They are thought to have been
Mount Vesuvius might be most known for its eruption in AD 79. That eruption led to the burying and ruin of the Roman cities of Pompeii …show more content…
The morning of the first day was seemingly normal to the only witness to leave a surviving document, who was Pliny the Younger. At midday an explosion flung up a column where ash and pumice began to fall, covering the area. Rescues and escapes happened at this time. Sometime at night pyroclastic flows in the nearby surrounding area of the volcano began. Lights were seen on the peak interpreted as fires. People fled for their lives. The flows were quick moving, thick and very hot, bashing down most structures in their path, cremating or suffocating all inhabitants lingering and changing the landscape, including the coastline. These were accompanied by additional light quakes and a minor tsunami on the Bay of Naples. By late afternoon of the second day, the eruption was over, leaving only haze in the atmosphere. A cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases reaching a height of 21 mile and spewing molten rock reached local towns. By 2003, around 1,044 casts made from imprints of bodies in the pyroclastic surge deposits were found in and around Pompeii. About 40% of the 1,044 were found in ash fall, the majority inside buildings. They are thought to have been