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Killer Earthquake
February 5, 62: a killer earthquake happened before Vesuvius erupted. -
Smaller Earthquake
64 AD: a smaller earthquake happened after the earthquake in 62. (I couldn't find the actual date so I put in the 1 of January. -
Lava came In: 1:00am
1 am: The lava came so fast that the people that lived close to Vesuvius in Pompeii were mummified by the lava. -
Pumice Power!
5-6 pm: Vesuvius ejected molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. (It lasted eighteen to twenty hours) -
Herculanium 1-2 am
1-2 am August 25: Herculaneum was a closer town that got destroyed by Vesuvius. -
Pyroclastic Flows 8 am
8 am: The pyroclastic flows are actually what killed most of the people. -
Tsunami!
August 26: A mild tsunami happened on the last day of destruction. -
How Much AD
The eruption started in August 24 and ended two days later. Pompeii was destroyed 79 years after Christ died. -
Giant Ash Cloud
Vesuvian ash fell over 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) away.
This Actually happened throughout everything in this timeline. -
Thermal Energy
All of this caused an over hundred thousand times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima bombing. -
Sad Times
About 20,000 people died altogether. -
Theories!
Magma chambers lay deep beneath the earth and the farther down the bigger the eruption. There are tunnels going straight up from the magma chambers. The tunnel goes up to the volcano, which was created by two tectonic plates beneath the earth colliding. The heat from the chamber rises. The more magma beneath the volcano, the more heat rises from underneath the volcano, and this creates a buildup of hot air trying to escape. The bigger the buildup… the bigger the BOOM!
