Eruption of Vesuvius buries Pompeii

Period

AD 79

Region

Europe

Category

Science

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano located in the modern-day region of Campania, Italy, erupted, causing one of the deadliest eruptions in history. Vesuvius violently ejected a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event gives its name to the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption, characterised by columns of hot gases and ash reaching the stratosphere, although the event also included pyroclastic flows associated with Peléan eruptions.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. 218–201 BCSecond Punic War
2. 216 BCBattle of Cannae
3. 44 BCAssassination of Julius Caesar
4. AD 79Eruption of Vesuvius buries PompeiiThis page
5. AD 410Visigothic sack of Rome
6. AD 476Fall of the Western Roman Empire
7. AD 800Coronation of Charlemagne

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