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Some were crushed or suffocated my collapsed buildings, others suffocated because of the dense cloud of ash and because of the pyroclastic flows that were a mixture of white hot air and toxic gasses.

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Some were crushed to death under collapsed buildings, some were trapped under fallen buildings and suffocated, some were killed instantly by the numerous surges of heat and toxic gases called pyroclastic flows that came down from the volcano. Other would have suffocated because of the dense ash.

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A recent multidisciplinary volcanological and bio-anthropological study of the eruption products and victims, merged with numerical simulations and experiments indicate that at Vesuvius and surrounding towns heat was the main cause of death of people, previously supposed to have died by ash suffocation. The results of this study show that exposure to at least 250 °C hot surges at a distance of 10 kilometres from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings.[10

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They didn't if they were there. The eruption covered 65 acres and 3 cities with a pyro clastic cloud that covered the area in about 7 minutes with clouds of rocks, dust, gasses, and 900 degree heat . No matter where anyone hid or where they went in the area they would not have escaped the eruption. Today the volcano is still active with a million people living in the area.

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It was down the hill from a volcano, so when the volcano erupted it, killed everybody.

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Most people did not have time to run away. Most died due to the heat surge of the eruption even before the town was hit and buried by the falling volcanic ash.

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My ass blew up

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