Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mount Vesuvius violently ejected 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.
25,000 years ago: Vesuvius started forming in the Codola Plinian eruption. [18] Vesuvius was then built up by a series of lava flows, with some smaller explosive eruptions interspersed between them. By this time, the volcano was 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) tall, with the summit being 500 meters (1,640 feet) east of the current summit. [31] [32]
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 ...
[1] [2] It depicts a procession of Saint Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, against the backdrop of the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupting. A major eruption of Vesuvius from October to November 1822. [3] This was reflected in a number of artworks of the era including Horace Vernet's Vesuvius Erupting.
The Eruption Theatre will give guests a taste of the experience of being in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. ... Mount Adams were ever to erupt and cover Cincinnati and the Museum ...
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.
Eruption of Vesuvius. Painting by Norwegian painter I.C. Dahl (1826) In his letter Pliny relates the first warning of the eruption: My uncle was stationed at Misenum, in active command of the fleet. On (several dates are given in the copies), [10] in the early afternoon, my mother drew his attention to a cloud of unusual size and appearance. He ...
Mount Vesuvius looms over the palatial Forum Romanum, the civic center of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city 25 kilometers southeast of Naples, in southwestern Italy.Looking at the collapsed peak of ...