The Disaster Of Pompeii

By Alya Elmenyawi

What happened?

Mount Vesuvius next to Pompeii was the most devastating volcanic eruption ever. There were 2,000 deaths. This volcanic eruption occurred in 79AD. Mt Vesuvius wiped out one city the size of Rome and another smaller village. First a layer of thick , deadly ash covered the village and killed everyone and then lava came over and buried the village in rock. .........

Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. They were never rebuilt, although surviving townspeople and probably looters did undertake extensive salvage work after the destructions. The towns' locations were eventually forgotten until their accidental rediscovery in the 18th century.

Did anybody survive ?

Some of the settlers rowed away in boats, like Pliny the Younger, while other settlers did not escape in time. A man called Pliny was one of the few survivors and he wrote a diary about what was happening to him and it is thanks to Pliny that we know what happened in the past.

Pliny’s Accounts

Pliny the Younger was one of the few survivors of the eruption . He saw the eruption from the other side of the sea and rushed off to sail closer to the volcano to write this down and he survived. He had an uncle with the same name as him who was a writer and he went to Pompeii to have a look at the volcano for his writing but he died.

Roman Gods

When it started to hail rocks the Romans believed that the reason this was happening was because the were being punished by the gods. Then in the end some knew that they were going to die but it was to late to flee. So some poisoned themselves because it was fast and painless .

Map of Italy

Pyroclastic flow

A Pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving current of extremely hot gas and rock which travel away from a volcano at speeds as fast as 450 mph. The flows normally hug the ground and travel down quickly , or spread laterally under gravity. Their speed depends upon the density of the current , the volcanic output rate and the gradient of the slope. They are a common and devastating result of certain explosive volcanic eruption.

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