The eruption in 79 AD was NOT unexpected. Why do you think so many people escaped? For about two months before the big bang the area had experienced a series of earth tremors and the water supply was drying up. The smart ones got out. The ones who stayed were the ones who, for some reason could not leave or simply "didn't believe it was anything serious". This accounts for the low death toll in relationship to the total population.
The eruption of Mr. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.
It was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompeii in 79.
In 79 AD Pompeii was destroyed by the volcano, Mt. Vesuvius.
The eruption of Vesuvius that devastated Pompeii happened in 70 AD.
After being badly damaged by an earthquake in 63 AD, Pompeii was completely buried in 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.The eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii was in 79 AD.
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Mount Vesuvius was the name of the volcano that erupted and destroyed the town of Pompey in the year 79 A.D.
The eruption of Mr. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.
Pompeii was buried by the violent, explosive eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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The year AD 79. It spanned 2 days straight and covered the whole town in 25 metres of Ash and Lava
Pompeii is located near Mount Vesuvius, which is a composite volcano. However, Pompeii itself is not a volcano but rather an ancient Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii is the city that was famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Pompeii was a coastal Roman town that was buried by an ingnimbrite eruption from mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii does not erupt. Pompeii was a city that was buried by ash and pumice in 79 AD, during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii, was a Plinian eruption. In fact, it was the description of this eruption by Pliny the Younger that lead to the term Plinian.