Mount Vesuvius

Well, since mostly everybody suffocated on ash, I got to say a few lucky ones. More than likely about 1-15...

The dead bodies in Pompeii were preserved by the volcanic ash and pumice that covered the city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The ash quickly cooled and solidified around the bodies, creating casts of the victims when the bodies decomposed.

The scientific reason for Mt. Vesuvius's eruption, is that pressure on the rocks the closest to the mantle increases when two continental plates collide and push against each other causing the ground to quake, and the rocks to melt and form magma. Then as the magma in the mantle increases the magma rises into the magma chambers. Then the pressure in the magma chambers increases, and it continues to build up until the volcano can't stand the pressure and the volcano erupts, and explodes.

Like many other stratovolcanoes, Mount Vesuvius varies in its type of eruptions. Some eruptions are explosive, producing clouds of ash. Others are are effusive, producing lava flows. The famous eruption that buried Pompeii in the year 79 was a highly explosive Plinian eruption.

Grimsvotn volcano, located in Iceland, has had eruptions with a range of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) values. The most recent major eruption in 2011 had a VEI of 4, producing significant ash clouds that disrupted air travel in Europe. However, past eruptions at Grimsvotn have reached VEI 6, making them much larger and more explosive.

That would be Italy.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Pompeii was devastated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.

They did, at least the smart ones got out while the getting was good. The eruption was not a sudden unexpected event. There had been warning signs for weeks before the big blast. The ones that remained were the ones who for some reason could not leave or they were simply the type of people who ignored good advise. Proof of the evacuation of the majority of people is in the comparatively low number of bodies found for a town of Pompeii's size.

About 200 buildings were destroyed in the eruption.

More than half of the Pompeii population suffered, if not from suffocating under the stones and ash, most people who stood on the beach awaiting rescue, died from the poisinous gases spewed from Vesuvius.

No. That would be a major news story should it start. Millions of people live in the area around Vesuvius . It is one of the most watched volcanos in the world.

The ruins of Pompeii are world famous. They are located in Italy, southeast of Naples. In 79 AD, the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted and entombed the city in a deep layer of burning hot volcanic ash. Although they lived at the foot of the volcano, the inhabitants ignored the early rumblings and smoke, all of which had happened before. But this time it erupted, spewing out hot deadly ash, not lava, so the people were suffocated and died where they stood, and everything was covered over by a deep layer of hardened ash.

In 1748 the lost city was rediscovered and excavation was started. Visitors can now walk through the streets and houses and see plaster casts of people and dogs, just as they were when they died in their homes. The original bodies were gone after all these years, but the hardened ash had made perfect molds of the bodies, and plaster can be poured into them to create a 'statue' of the person as he died on that day.

It was caused by two tectonic plates. The African and Eurasian plate, by colliding together. It had many eruptions but the most famous one was in 79 A.D. It killed a town called Pompeii in Italy.

Some of the theories about the origin of the name Vesuvius include: * ** Hercules was son of the god Zeus and Alcmene of Thebes. Zeus was also known as in his aspect as the god of rains and dews. Hercules was thus alternatively known as Huēsou huios (Ὓησου υἱός), "Son of Hues." Transliterating the "ου" as "V" (as is normally done), and the other upsilons (with rough breathing) also by V (rather than the usual "HY") and changing to the Latin nominative ending "us", gives VESVVIVS - Vesuvius. ** From the Oscan word festf which means "smoke". ** From the Proto-Indo-European root ves- = "hearth" This is what I got from wikipedia.

It is active.

The last eruption of mt Vesuvius was in 1944,18 of March.

Some of the effects of the 79 eruption of Vesuvius were of course, the destruction of the area and the preservation of the bodies. This enabled archaeologists and related scientists to carefully reconstruct daily life in a ancient town. We have gained a wealth of historical data from the eruption area and we are learning more every day as the area that was devastated was not only Pompeii and Herculaneum, but Oplontis, Stabiae and Nuceria as well. In Roman times, some of the effects were the loss of property and lives, the changing of the sea coast, and the loss of good farmland. The eruption wiped out the grapes from which the famous (and expensive) Roman wine called Falerian was made.

There are two major factors in how a volcano will erupt: the viscosity of the magma (underground molten rock) and how much gas is in the magma.

Viscosity is the resistance of a liquid to flowing. For example syrup is more viscous than water. Magma varies in viscosity, and the magma that forms glowing red lava flows is of the least viscous type. The magma involved in the eruption that buried Pompeii was far more viscous, so it could not flow easily out of the volcano.

Gas is what drives the explosive force of an eruption. The gas is trapped in the magma under pressure and is released as the magma nears the surface. The more viscous types of magma usually have more gas. This holds true at Mount Vesuvius. Even more gas was probably added as seawater seeped into the volcano and turned to water vapor. When the highly viscous, gas-rich magma of Vesuvius came out, the exploding gasses blasted it into tiny fragments, called ash, and which remained suspended in enormous ash clouds.

It was 8 kilometers (5 miles) away from Mount Vesuvius.

When volcanoes erupt, the lava settles in with the ground and leaves this area very fertile with minerals inside the earth and volcano itself

The diameter of Mount Vesuvius is 6 kilometres.

Yes Vesuvius is expected to erupt again The question is no so much if as when and how violently.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.

Mount Vesuvius devastated Pompeii in August of 79 AD.