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Pages in category "Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Caesius Bassus [2] Unknown: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Aulus Umbricius Scaurus: Unknown: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Carl Hunstein: 45: Ritter Island: Papua New Guinea: 13 March 1888: Louis Mouttet: 44: Mount Pelée: Martinique: 8 May 1902: Hélène de Coppet: 35: Mount Pelée ...
Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...
Mount Vesuvius: 5 Italy: 1631 1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 3,000 Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 Indonesia: 1856 [6] 2,033 Oshima Oshima: 4 Japan ...
Mount Vesuvius (/ v ɪ ˈ s uː v i ə s / viss-OO-vee-əs) [a] is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.
On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in ash. Today, the city is a time capsule of the Roman Empire, and new discoveries in an uncommonly small ...
Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (6 P) Pages in category "Deaths in volcanic eruptions" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.