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Mount Vesuvius
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Campania, Italy Latitude & Longitude: 40.821995, 14.426508 Views: 158 Posted By: bmeyer2 (08/29/2008) Default View: Google Maps Editted: 0 time(s) |
Categories: - Nature & Landscape --> Mountains & Volcanoes - Disasters |
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bmeyer2 (08/29/2008)
Mount Vesuvius is most known for destroying the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD. It is still regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world and is the only to have erupted in the last 100 years on mainland Europe (the last being in 1944). It is also the most populated volcanic region on Earth (zoom out to see it) with over 3 million living in surrounding cities.
The massive eruption in 79 AD released 1 cubic mile of ash and rock over the course of 19 hours. Pompeii wasn't the only city to be buried, as several surrounded the volcano.
For a ton of detailed information, see Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius