Mount Vesuvius In The City Of Pompeii

I will be doing my essay and powerpoint on Mount Vesuvius. Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano in Italy in the Gulf of Naples. Mount Vesuvius last had an eruption in 1944 but i will be doing my essay will be on the eruption that is most famous and made it one of the most destructive and dangerous volcanoes in the world to most historians. Mount Vesuvius and the eruption in 79 AD, it was the most destructive one recorded so far on Vesuvius In the city of Pompeii . Here is a little background on Pompeii, Pompeii is a city in Italy that was at the time was an ordinary city but was very similar and much wider than the Roman Empire. The estimated population for the time would be 12,000 to 15,000 people living in Pompeii. The eruption in 79 AD started

on Monday the 17th in June. At first it was just a series of small earthquakes that kept getting worse and worse. Then later in the morning it just plain stopped…. Until there was an enormously loud sound that came from inside the volcano that scared all of the people living in Pompeii and the cities that it was surrounded by. Around mid-day the volcano, Vesuvius, started having small but noticeable eruptions that worried the residents of Pompeii but not enough to have them evacuate the city. Soon the volcano started having larger eruptions to the point where the entire city was shaking, with the larger eruptions came a poisonous cloud of gas coming from the volcano that was starting to climb over the city. At this point the people of Pompeii started fleeing the city while having to listen to the roar of Vesuvius. They were escaping to the beach trying to get into their boats and ships as fast as possible fearing that the volcano would not wait for them to depart into the safety of the ocean. By this time it is already the early afternoon and the cloud of poison was towering over the city of Pompeii. The volcano was making louder and louder terrifying noises while the people were fleeing to the ocean, with this the volcano’s poisonous cloud was now emitting lightning. Now it's the end of the day and the city of Pompeii is in ruin. The cloud of ash is completely over the city and it's raining poison and rocks or volcanic stones.

They say even though Herculaneum was closer to Vesuvius there was not as much damage to show as in Pompeii. Pompeii was absolutely devastated after the eruption. There was volcanic stone found all over the city. The people of Pompeii were killed in many different ways, some from the ash cloud that spread throughout the city. Others died from earthquakes and being burned alive by the lava. The ones that were killed by the lava were most likely late from trying to grab whatever they thought was most useful and thought they absolutely needed after the volcano. But this was not

all. The volcano was not done yet, it unleashed a massive hurricane.

This was what made the final blow on the city. The building stood no chance against the hurricane after the earthquake and the lava passing through. The city was covered in rock and was on fire… the cloud of ash was over 30 km high at the peak of the eruption. It was raining so much ash that it looked like snow. To this day only about 10 % of the people who lived in Pompeii have been excavated and about one third of the people of Herculaneum. There is no exact count on how many lives were lost during the eruption of 79 AD but some say about 90% of the people who lived in Pompeii were killed and that only a lucky 10 % survived but probably died soon afterward. I'm not sure why i chose this disaster exactly but i guess i've heard of the eruption of Pompeii before and therefore i thought that it would be fun to finally find out what the big deal of Pompeii was. This was not the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius though, the latest eruption Vesuvius had was in 1944 and was not as devastating as the eruption in 79 AD. In conclusion Vesuvius was and still is one of the most if not the most dangerous volcano on this planet and is still active, so now all we have to do is wait for the next

eruption.