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Mount Vesuvius

Where Is Mount Vesuvius, or Vesuvio in Italian, is an active situated above the Bay of in southern . Mount Vesuvius is one of Mount several volcanoes that form the Campanian , a series of Vesuvius? volcanoes of which some are dormant, active and extinct.

How High Is The height of Vesuvius changes after each eruption Mount but was estimated to be about 1281 metres tall in Vesuvius? 2013. Its crater measures about 600 metres across and is approximately 300 metres deep.

Glossary

active dormant extinct volcano volcano volcano

A volcano that has had A volcano that has A volcano that has not at least one eruption not erupted in the last had an eruption for during the past 10,000 years but could at least 10,000 years 10,000 years. possibly erupt again. and is not expected to erupt again.

visit twinkl.com What Is the More than 2 million people live around the volcano. There are several Area like farming villages on its lower slopes as the land is fertile and good around Mount for growing crops. Many industrial towns are situated in the Bay of Vesuvius? Naples. (Naples itself is a big industrial city.)

How Many A major recorded eruption of Vesuvius took place in 1631, killing around 3000 people. Since then, Vesuvius has erupted at least twenty Times Has times. The last big eruption happened during the Second World War Vesuvius in 1944. This eruption caused severe damage to a US Air Force base. Erupted? Over 12,000 people lost their homes and sadly, 26 people died.

After being dormant for centuries, there was a major eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, Why Is Mount which destroyed the Roman city of . Vesuvius Later, when the city was excavated by So Famous? archaeologists, the city was found to have been extremely well preserved. Impressions of bodies buried in the ash have been made into casts. This has given us an amazing insight into life at the time of the eruption. You can still visit Pompeii today.

Did You Know…?

A man named Mount Vesuvius is a . famously documented the eruption This is the name given to a volcano of Vesuvius in AD 79, in two letters built up of layers of and that he wrote to his historian ash. Stratovolcanoes have a tall, friend . The type conical shape. They are extremely of eruption that he dangerous because they described has since are very explosive and been named Plinian produce toxic gas. eruption after him.

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