How hot was the lava of Mount Vesuvius?

Answer 1

People died rather slow deaths as their lungs were seared like a well done steak and their skin slowly bubbled away from their bones. They yelled for as long as they could but eventually they choked on their own boiling blood. Im just kidding. They most likely died very fast but it still would have been painful.

Answer 2

As best as I understand what happened at Pompeii, lava did not reach the city. It was a pyroclastic cloud that engulfed the city and killed it's inhabitants. It probably only took minutes for the cloud to reach the city since it was probably traveling hundreds of miles per hour.

Answer 3

The eruption that destroyed Pompeii did not produce lava flows. It was an explosive eruption that produced clouds of ash, pumice, and gas. Instead of lava flows there were pyroclastic flows, which are much more dangerous. Pyroclastic flows are superheated avalanches of ash, gas, and pumice that race down the sides of a volcano. These flows reached at least as far as Pompeii, 6.5 miles from the vent.

Answer 4

In most of its eruptions, Mount Vesuvius has produces clouds of ash rather than lava flows. The type of magma involved in most eruptions from Vesuvius is generally slow-flowing, but the ash clouds are faster than any lava flow.

Answer 5

Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano lying on a subduction zone. Its lava is therefore more viscous and slow than the fast-running, thin lavas of shield volcanoes like Mauna Loa. However Vesuvius' eruptions are not always simple lava, and the speed of the various flows is affected by lots of factors.

Answer 6

this volcano blew up...cataclastic flow or something...anyway, very bad. this volcano blew up...cataclastic flow or something...anyway, very bad.

Answer 7

It is not known. The temperature of lava varies between 700 and 1,200 degrees C (2,292 and 2,192 degrees F). However, it was not the lava that hit Pompeii. It was an ash cloud fallout.

Answer 8

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