Natural+Disasters

= Natural Disasters = = By Samantha Ferland and Tyler Gallant = = = =Pompeii= Pompeii was a beautiful Roman town in the Italian region Campania, located 4.35 miles from Mount Vesuvius. In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii under 4-6 meters of ash and pumice. Back then Romans had never heard of a volcano, to them Mount Vesuvius was just that, a mountain. When the volcano started to erupt, they thought the gods were angry with them. Then the eruption started, there was ash raining down on them. The people of Pompeii started running for the ocean, but some couldn't outrun the 450mph Pyroclastic flow. Although it only took seconds for the pyroclastic flow to reach Pompeii, the catastrophic eruption lasted for two days. Pompeii was lost and forgotten for over 1,500 years before it was accidentally rediscovered in 1599.

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