Mount Vesuvius erupts

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29-06-2020

Mount Vesuvius erupts, city abandoned for years

WHAT HAPPENED………. On August 24, after centuries of dormancy. Mount Vesusive erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities, buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud, were never rebuilt and largely forgotten in the course of history. 2000 people died in this and the city was abandoned for many years.  shrouded the city in “darkness…like the black of closed and unlighted rooms.” Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years.

\WHO WAS INVOLVED (INTERVIEWS) Pliny the Younger, a Roman historian who witnessed the 79 AD eruption, write the oldest surviving description of the tall, tree-shaped, cloud that rose above the volcano, said, “On 24 August, in the early afternoon, my mother drew [my uncle's] attention to a cloud of unusual size and appearance. Its general appearance can be best expressed as being like an umbrella pine, for it rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches, I imagine because it was thrust upwards by the first blast and then left unsupported as the pressure subsided, or else it was borne down by its own weight so that it spread out and gradually dispersed. Sometimes it looked white, sometimes blotched and dirty, according to the amount of soil and ashes it carried with it."

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