Pompeii

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Pompeii

• The famous eruption of 79 CE buried Roman cities
  in a time capsule

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Mediterranean Volcanoes
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Naples and Vicinity
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Vesuvius and Monte Somma
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Crater of Vesuvius, pre-1944
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Crater of Vesuvius
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The 1944 Lava Flow
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The 1944 Lava Flow
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Funiculi, Funicula.
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Street Scene in Pompeii
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Roman Fast Food
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Roman Plumbing
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The Gladiator School
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A Minor Mystery
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Victim of Vesuvius
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Victims of Vesuvius
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Ash Flows from Vesuvius
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Volcanic Explosivity Index
VEI Classification Description Ejecta volume Frequency
0 Hawaiian non-explosive gt 1000 m³ daily
1 Strombolian gentle gt 10,000 m³ daily
2 Vulcanian explosive gt 1,000,000 m³ weekly
3 Pelean severe gt 10,000,000 m³ yearly
4 Pelean/Plinian cataclysmic gt 0.1 km³ 10 yrs
5 Plinian paroxysmal gt 1 km³ 50 yrs
6 Ultra-Plinian colossal gt 10 km³ 100 yrs
7 Ultra-Plinian super-colossal gt 100 km³ 1000 yrs
8 Ultra-Plinian mega-colossal gt 1000 km³ 10,000 yrs
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Vesuvius, March 1944
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Pliny Like a pine tree
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Vesuvius 1631 and 1694
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