Mt. Vesuvius In Pompeii
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Pompeii was in the year of 79 CE on August 24th. The volcano stood 6,500 feet high and was 12 miles north of Pompeii, but the eruption had strong winds, causing tons of ash to rain on Pompeii and its neighbors. Four days before the eruption there were small earthquakes that started to become more frequent, but the residents didn’t think anything was wrong because earthquakes were very common. Very quickly there was 9 feet of ash that covered the entire city, and was causing the roofs on many houses to fall in. The whole town was wiped out in the time of only 25 hours and in the end there was a total of 19-23 feet of ash covering Pompeii completely. 2,000 people survived the first eruption but when the next
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He saw how serious the eruption was getting so he got his crew and they all arrived a few hours later to rescue as many people as possible. They had to land in a nearby village, Stabiae, because the harbor was blocked off by debris. He found a friend who was trying to flee and Elder Pliny had to calm him down. He asked for a bath and a meal then went to bed. When he woke up he felt ill and the earthquakes and eruption just kept on getting worse. He was not able to flee with his friend and the others. His body was found two days later on the beach. This story got out from his nephew, Young Pliny, who stayed back in Misenum. The main source of information about the events was from letters he wrote describing the eruption to a Roman historian. The volcanic eruption that Mt Vesuvius demonstrated is now called a Plinian eruption.
Pompeii today is still very undiscovered because there is so much ash covering the town that nobody knows where to look and find all these preserved artifacts. All of the buildings, art, artifacts and bodies were perfectly forever frozen as they were the day they got buried. Historians have now found that the heat killed lots of the people faster than the ash. Temperatures got to 300℃ (570℉) killing people instantly. Archaeologists first thought that the people suffocated from the ash they were breathing in, but they soon realized that was wrong because the heat was so hot that they actually died of heat
He saw how serious the eruption was getting so he got his crew and they all arrived a few hours later to rescue as many people as possible. They had to land in a nearby village, Stabiae, because the harbor was blocked off by debris. He found a friend who was trying to flee and Elder Pliny had to calm him down. He asked for a bath and a meal then went to bed. When he woke up he felt ill and the earthquakes and eruption just kept on getting worse. He was not able to flee with his friend and the others. His body was found two days later on the beach. This story got out from his nephew, Young Pliny, who stayed back in Misenum. The main source of information about the events was from letters he wrote describing the eruption to a Roman historian. The volcanic eruption that Mt Vesuvius demonstrated is now called a Plinian eruption.
Pompeii today is still very undiscovered because there is so much ash covering the town that nobody knows where to look and find all these preserved artifacts. All of the buildings, art, artifacts and bodies were perfectly forever frozen as they were the day they got buried. Historians have now found that the heat killed lots of the people faster than the ash. Temperatures got to 300℃ (570℉) killing people instantly. Archaeologists first thought that the people suffocated from the ash they were breathing in, but they soon realized that was wrong because the heat was so hot that they actually died of heat