What Was The Eruption In Pompeii Like?

Question

Umm, I would like some help or an answer (if possible :D)

Answer 1

Pompeii was the defining example of a Plinian eruption. About 20,000 people lived in the city. Of these at least 2,000 died. The day was probably terrifying and full of panic. I know of no other accounts of the eruption

When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., people who lived in the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum had advance warnings. But no one could have anticipated that the rumbling volcano would completely bury both towns with ash and pumice.

Eyewitness accounts tell us what happened. Casts made of trapped or fleeing people reveal terror-filled faces. Evidence shows people who initially fled Pompeii returned, only to be killed by Vesuvius' increasing fury. Silent for thousands of years, Pompeii and Herculaneum are now living museums of life in the Roman Empire during the first century of the Common Era.

Answer 2

I know that Mount. Vesuvius was dormant until just before the eruption. It was active for a few weeks before, so the people were used to it, I think I remember reading that somewhere. Anyway, there was either little or no lava. It was a whole bunch of ash that rained down on everyone. The people headed for the boats. I actually saw a picture of a dog trying to protect a child and they were both ash-preserved in those positions. It was cool, but sad at the same time. Some guy in a city down the coast, in the opposite direction of the wind blowing the ash to another town, wrote about it. There was a city built on top of Pompeii years later. Some guys who were digging a sewer system for that town found the preserved remains of Pompeii. That's about all I can remember.

Answer 3

This is from volcano.und.nodak.edu The 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius was the first volcanic eruption ever to be described in detail. From 18 miles (30 km) west of the volcano, Pliny the Younger, witnessed the eruption and later recorded his observations in two letters. He described the earthquakes before the eruption, the eruption column, air fall, the effects of the eruption on people, pyroclastic flows, and even tsunami. Volcanologists now use the term "plinian" to refer to sustained exlosive eruptions which generate high-altitude eruption columns and blanket large areas with ash. It is estimated that at times during the eruption the column of ash was 20 miles (32 km) tall. About 1 cubic mile (4 cubic km) of ash was erupted in about 19 hours. Volcanoes by Peter Francis contains several direct passages from Pliny the Younger and describes the archeology of Pompeii and Herculaneum. ... About 10 feet (3 m) of tephra fell on Pompeii burying everything except the roofs of some buildings... Herculaneum was buryed under 75 feet (23 m) of ash deposited by pyroclastic flow.

Answer 4

It was like the eruption at mount helen. They where both gases and ash release. But pompeii was so much earlier that it effected them so much more. People's houses caved in and many people died from the toxins form the valcano.

Answer 5

the erruption wasso loud that it could be heard half way across the globe.

the firey ash came down so hot and so fast that it froze the entire city in their every day tasks.

its been a while since ive even thought about anything pompeii related.

Answer 6

Like a monkey swinging from a tree!
With some grapes under its arms

Answer 7

slightly worse than having to clean Rosie O'Donnell's toilet, but not much...

Answer 8

hot