Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered an ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

Today, Pompeii is famous for being the site of a natural disaster—the deadly 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which left the ancient city frozen in time. But before the volcano unleashed its ...

We need to have backups already in place before disaster strikes, whether that’s warehouses in different towns, top-notch ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has become the most famous volcanic eruption in history. This is largely thanks to Pompeii, the Roman city destroyed during the eruption and frozen in time ...

(people talking, goats bleating in background) FLOHR: Many more people were held as slaves in Pompeii in the early first century BCE than there had been a century before.

During the eruption, pumice lapilli—small volcanic rock and ash particles—rained down on the city for hours, forcing people to seek shelter.

Skeletons discovered at Pompeii show earthquake added to disaster New evidence reveals the catastrophe at Pompeii went beyond the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Have you heard the names of Mt. Vesuvius and Gunung Tambora? These two volcanoes are two of the most famous destructive volcanoes on Earth. How much damage did the volcanoes do to people? Yoseop Kim, ...

This work is among the first studies to undertake the complex task of detailing co-occurring earthquakes that happened before and around the time of volcanic eruption.

Amid Its Volcanic Eruption, Pompeii Was Also Rocked by an Earthquake, Study Suggests Researchers uncovered skeletal remains of two people in the ancient city that seem to have been killed by a ...