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Mount Vesuvius ( / vɪˈsuːviəs / 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. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc.
Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies, [ 2] and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. This volcanic explosivity index (VEI) 7 eruption ejected 37–45 km 3 (8.9–10.8 cubic miles) of dense-rock equivalent (DRE) material ...
About 33.9 million ago, the Oligocene epoch of the Paleogene period begins. The Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up begins 40 million years ago and lasts until 25 million years ago. Bennett Lake Volcanic Complex erupts 50 million years ago with a VEI 7 850 cubic kilometers (204 cu mi) of tephra.
An ancient beach that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago has reopened to the public after restoration works. The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park is ...
The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) 1610 BCE. [2] [3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis. [4]
Buried the Roman settlements of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae. Deaths. 1,500–3,500, possibly up to 16,000 [ 1][ note 1] Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in Southern Italy, the best-known is its eruption in 79 AD, [ 2][ 3] which was one of the deadliest in history. [ 4]
A huge column of volcanic ash and gas rose more than 30,000 feet (9,100 m) into the air and was visible from as far away as Eureka, California, 150 miles (240 km) to the west. A pyroclastic flow swept down the side of the volcano, devastating a 3-square-mile (7.8 km 2) area. This explosion was the most powerful in a 1914–1917 series of ...
Mount Pinatubo[ 4] is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, [ 5][ 6] most people were unaware of its eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991.