August 24 or c. October 24 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Ne zaman

79

Tür

Yanardağ patlaması

Koordinatlar

40.82° N, 14.44° E

Yerleştirildiği yer: coordinates of the event it links, Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

August 24 or c. October 24 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis. The Roman navy (based at Misenum), commanded by Pliny the Elder, evacuates refugees. Pliny dies after inhaling volcanic fumes.

Volcanic eruption in Italy

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano located in the modern-day region of Campania, Italy, erupted, causing one of the deadliest eruptions in history. 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 Hir…

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