What was the name of the volcano that destroyed pompeii?
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Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius
What was the name of the volcano that destroyed pompeii?
Pompeii Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD Mount Vesuvius Herculaneum Pompeii (film) The Fires of Pompeii Pyroclastic flow Pliny the Elder Mount Etna Ludger Sylbaris
<b>Pompeii</b> was an ancient city located in the modern comune of Pompei near 
Naples in the ... Several houses were built with the so-<b>called</b> Tuscan atrium, 
typical of this people. ... ash from the Soufrière Hills <b>volcano</b> in the 1990s; Saint-
Pierre, Martinique, town similarly <b>destroyed</b> by the <b>volcanic</b> eruption of Mount 
Pelee, in 1902. Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, the most famous is the eruption 
in 79 AD. ... The event gives its <b>name</b> to the Vesuvian type of <b>volcanic</b> eruptions, 
... The first major earthquake since 217 BC occurred on February 5, 62 AD 
causing widespread <b>destruction</b> around the Bay of Naples, and particularly to 
<b>Pompeii</b>. Mount Vesuvius (/vɪˈsuːviəs/ viss-OO-vee-əs; Italian: Monte Vesuvio Italian 
pronunciation: ... Vesuvius was a <b>name of the volcano</b> in frequent use by the 
authors of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. ... violent 
eruptions, until the most recent Plinian eruption, which <b>destroyed Pompeii</b> and 
Herculaneum. Herculaneum was an ancient town, located in the modern-day comune of 
Ercolano, Campania, Italy. The city was <b>destroyed</b> and buried under <b>volcanic</b> ash 
and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Like its neighbouring city 
<b>Pompeii</b>, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ... Ancient tradition connected 
Herculaneum with the <b>name</b> of the Greek hero&nbsp;... <b>Pompeii</b> is a 2014 romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul 
W. S. Anderson. An international co-production between the United States, 
Germany and Canada, it is inspired by and based on the eruption of Mount 
Vesuvius in 79 A.D. that <b>destroyed Pompeii</b>, a city of the ... Atticus tries to reach 
the harbor, but a tsunami created by the <b>volcano</b>&nbsp;... &quot;The Fires of <b>Pompeii</b>&quot; is the second episode of the fourth series of the British 
science fiction ... For the disaster that destroyed Pompeii, see Eruption of Mount 
Vesuvius in 79. ... The Doctor discovers that the <b>volcano</b> is being used by the 
Pyroviles to ... The Pyrovile were also edited during writing: they were previously 
<b>called</b>&nbsp;... A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving current of hot gas and <b>volcanic</b> matter (
collectively known as ... A <b>name</b> for pyroclastic flows which glow red in the dark is 
nuée ardente (French, &quot;burning ... Fountain collapse of an eruption column from a 
Plinian eruption (e.g. Mount Vesuvius&#39; <b>destruction</b> of Herculaneum and <b>Pompeii</b>). Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), <b>called</b> Pliny the Elder was a Roman 
author, a naturalist ... The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge 
of the <b>volcano&#39;s</b> eruption did not allow his ship to leave ... at the time of the great 
eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which <b>destroyed</b> and buried <b>Pompeii</b> and 
Herculaneum. Mount Etna, or Etna is an active <b>stratovolcano</b> on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in 
the ... Today, the <b>name</b> Mongibello is used for the area of Mount Etna containing 
the two central craters, and the craters ... the city walls on the western side of 
Catania and <b>destroyed</b> a few buildings before stopping in the rear of the 
Benedictine&nbsp;... Ludger Sylbaris (1 June 1874 – c. 1929) was an Afro-Caribbean man who was 
one of two survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of 
Martinique during the devastating <b>volcanic</b> eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, ... It 
is commonly believed that his birth <b>name</b> was either August Cyparis or Louis-
Auguste&nbsp;...
Mount Vesuvius
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