Mount Vesuvius

Mount Fuji is considered to be dormant for now, but can erupt at any time. No one knows for sure if or when it will.

Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

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Mount Vesuvius is an active stratovolcano located in Italy near Naples. It is currently in the "active" stage of its life cycle, meaning that it is still capable of erupting. Its last eruption was in 1944, and it is closely monitored by scientists for any signs of activity.

No, people just think that it was extinct because it had not erupted in a long period of time.

There were human settlements on and near Mount Vesuvius as early as the 19th century B.C. These were destroyed when the volcano erupted in 1800 B.C.

When it erupted, it killed everything around it, eg: Pompii by suffocation (ash). There was little lava but the lava did burn trees and fields etc.

No way to tell accurately; definitely several thousand. Fortunately, there are actually eyewitness accounts of that disaster that survive, and we know about how many people lived in the nearby towns. However, these are estimates, and the eruption's effects happened to areas outside the towns of Pompeii and Hurculaneum as well, when Vesuvius erupted in 79. 5,000 might be fair number, but it's really just an educated guess.

The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. Most people died from smoke inhalation and suffocation.

Mount Vesuvius is the result of a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate slides under another. In this case the portion of the African Plate that is under the Mediterranean is sliding under the Eurasian Plate. This generates magma tha allows volcanoes to form.

Mount Vesuvius has erupted more than 50 times, so there isn't 1 specific date of when it erupted.

Only the territory in Italy called Campania was affected by the 79 eruption of Vesuvius. You see, there were no countries in the area at the time. It was all the Roman empire .

The amount of money a tube of ash from the Vesuvious eruption 1944 days, 2 to 26 is worth varies depending on the customer base for this product. Ash typically sells from between $50 to $200 a jar, depending on how rare it is.

Completely covered 65 acres and 3 cities.

Stage 1: The volcano will rumble without erupting. Next a large smoke "cloud" rises over it. This is called the Plinian Stage. During this stage there is A LOT of dust, ashes, cinder, and rocks falling from Vesuvius. This stage might last for hours or even days! The amount of dust, ashes, cinder, and rocks can cause roofs on houses to collapse and fall in.

Stage 2: Super hot cloud of steam and mud flows down the side of Vesuvius and Covered Herculaneum.

I don't really know if the rest of these stages are in order but i do know that there are many pyroclastic surges that causes the earth to shake and toxic gas to flow out and choke victims that are too close to the volcano. There are clouds of toxic gas and smoke and hot mud that flow and race after the people at over 65 MPH (miles per hour)! That's too fast to outrun so while some people were trying to outrun these "clouds" they would most likely die! In the end Pompeii was covered in 8-10 feet of ash and debris!

It erupted in about 79 AD.

Until it erupted they didn't know it was a volcano. The total event started with an earthquake about 3 days before the final eruption and they were use to earthquakes. When it did finally erupt they didn't have a chance. The pryoclastic cloud took less than 5 minutes to cover the entire area and it buried 2 cities as well as changed the coastline.

Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944.

No. Mount Vesuvius caused damage locally and perhaps regionally, but not globally. The most globally damaging volcanic eruption in recorded history was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Even this was small compared to the supereruptions that have ocurred in prehistoric times.

Herculaneum was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.

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I'm visiting a city that was covered by volcanic ash when a volcano erupted back in 79 A.D. You can still see the

extinct volcano in the distance. Now excavated, this "unburied" city is a popular tourist site. Walking around the city,

you can see a bakery with bread still in the oven -- just as it was when the volcano suddenly erupted. One house even

has a "Beware of Dog" mosaic at the door entrance. As I walked the stone streets, I saw that every so often three

raised stones were positioned. The stones were originally placed there for two reasons: The first reason was to help

people cross the street without getting their feet covered in waste water; there were no underground sewers back

then. The second reason was to prevent attacks from neighboring areas; only people in the city knew the dimensions

to build their chariots so they could pass through those streets!

They weren't. When the eruption occurred the people were buried in volcanic ash that later hardened somewhat. After some time their flesh decayed away, though the skeletons remained, leaving hollow spaces that preserved their final poses. Archaeologists later poured plaster into these hollow spaces.