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Pompeii was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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∙ 14y agoIt depends on what city. If it is somewhere like New York City than no way but somewhere like Forks than yeah. YEAH IT DEPENDS ON WHICH CITY! LARGE CITIES AREN'T POSSIBLE TO BE DESTROYED!!!!!!!!
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∙ 14y agoA volcano will do a hundred times more damage to a city than a full fledged forest fire would. Volcanoes ooze out lava, which is molten rock. Melting rock needs a lot of temperature that you can find only beneath the earth. (Under the crust, lava is called magma.) Volcanoes also spew out very hot ash and rocks, along with blazing "balls of fire". All these components are enough to destroy a city as big as perhaps New York within fifteen minutes of a volcano's eruption.
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∙ 13y agoA volcanic eruption can and will destroy anything and everything. The ash can make you or any animal stop breathing because it is so dense and not to mention that when a volcano erupts it also spits out rocks that weights tons of pounds and obviously the lava can destroys anything it comes in contact with...
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∙ 6y agoYes. During as massive volcanic eruption some volcanoes may collapse. If that volcano forms an island, then it may collapse into the sea. There are two well-known cases of this. Around 1600 B.C. a volcanic eruption destroyed the island of Thera in the Mediterranean. The remaining rim is now called Santorini. In 1883 the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia was destroyed in a similar eruption.
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∙ 10y agoLava flows, mudflows, and pryoclastic flows can destroy or bury large portions of cities and towns, especially the latter two, which can kill tens of thousands in a single event. Heavy ashfall can bury coomunities as well, shot down motorized transportiation, and collaps roofs.
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∙ 12y agoIt depends on the magnitude of them. For example, a teensy weensy one couldn't destroy a city, but a huge one could.
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How have the volcanoes in central America been useful?
they burned down many native towns
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not really
Volcanoes Affect The Landscape?
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by moving the ground
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bank,to open the new branches rise of commerce......to affect life in towns and cities public to give the lot of opportunity and offers.......
How do volcanoes affect people and their comunities?
They bury and burn up towns. Look at Pompeii for a good example of what happens.
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Observations need to be in very dark areas so in cities and towns there a lots of bright lights which affect observations to be seen more clearly!!
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What are all of Algeria's cities and towns?
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There is work in towns and cities for them.
are there more towns or cities in India?
There are more towns :)
Do people in Ecuador live in cities or towns?
Ecuadorians live in cities, towns, tiny towns, etc, just like the rest of the world.
