Mount Vesuvius
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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How Vesuvius got its name
-Some of the theories state that Vesuvius is name came from Hercules' alternative name of Huesou huios- Son of Hues that translates to "V" and the Latin ended the word with a "us" when they got Vesuvius.
Vesuvius History
- Vesuvius last erupted in 1944 but, before that it erupted in 1906 and Vesuvius' most famous volcano was in 79A.D.
Photo by Rita Willaert
The biggest eruption of Vesuvius
The biggest eruption of Vesuvius was in 79A.D.
The volcano had started shooting up into the air a deadly cloud of volcanic gas, stones, ash, and fumes of the height 33kilometers. It ejected molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second.
It ultimately released a hundred thousand times the thermal energy than the Hiroshima bombing. The towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were ruined and buried underneath massive pyro-clastic flows and ash filled magma.
Photo by Carlo Mirante
Volcano Facts
Height: 42,000ft
Base: 48km(30miles)
Age: 17,000yrs. old
Location: southern Italy
Type: strato volcano
Eruptions: over 50 eruptions
Last eruption 1944
Eruption force: moderate
Magma content: high
H2o: low
Ability of magma to flow: medium
Products of eruption: lava ash
Photo by gnuckx
