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Mount Vesuvius with Pompeii in the foreground. June, 1987
June, 1987
Tourists on the rim of the crater of Mount Vesuvius. June, 1987
Looking down from the crater of Mount Vesuvius at lava flows from the 1944 eruption. June, 1987
Computer generated view of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
As the photograph notes, a crew member of the US 340th Bomb Group cleans ash off a B-25 bomber from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on March 23, 1944 during World War II.
Tourists can climb to the rim.
Mount Vesuvius is an active stratovolcano formed from the subduction of the African plate below the Eurasian plate.
Mount Vesuvius has erupted numerous times since humans have been living on and around it. The last time there was a significant eruption was during World War II in 1944 (allied bombers recorded the eruptions). But Mount Vesuvius is most noted for the eruptions in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii and several other Roman towns. The towns were destroyed by pyroclastic flows – fast moving superheated flows consisting primarily of gas, ash, rock and small droplets of molten lava. The temperatures can exceed 1,000 degrees C (1,830 degrees F) and move as rapidly as 700 km/hr (450 mi/hr) down the flanks of a volcano. Volcanologists estimate that more than 16,000 people were killed during these devastating flows.
Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio, Latin: Mons Vesuvius) is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure.
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