Vesuvius
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Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio, Latin: Mons Vesuvius) is a volcano in Italy. When it erupted in 79 A.D., it destroyed the Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killed thousands of people. Today, the modern Italian city of Naples is near it.
[edit] Eruption of 79
Today, people think the eruption lasted more than 19 hours. It was witnessed by Pliny the Younger who described it as the shape of a pine tree.
There were many ways in which people died. One was that the smoke that they breathed in was deadly, when it dried in their lungs it formed glass and so it cut them inside. They also got covered by molten lava which when solid formed a shell around the body. The people in Pompeii experienced a tremendous earthquake on February 5, 62 A.D., and when Vesuvius blew, some buildings weren't still finished being repaired.
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