Fun Facts!!
- The city of Pompeii did not know that Vesuvius was a volcano, as it hadn’t erupted in 1,800 years
- There isn’t even a Latin word for volcano when the eruption took place
- The eruption was very unusual, without lava or other substances usually in volcanoes
- The eruption was a plinian eruption, the most dangerous and feared kind of all, involving super-heated gas, magma and ash that form a giant towering column that builds up into the sky
- So much debris was thrown out that it completely blocked the rays of the sun
- Vesuvius erupts in a plinian eruption this way once in every 2,000 years
- Of the 15,000 population, an estimated 2,000 died in the disaster
- When the rescue parties arrived they discovered that only the tops of the building could be seen in Pompeii
- The city was covered in ash untill 1748, when workers building King Charles III palace stumbled upon it