What happened when Mt. Vesuvius errupted?
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For a good outline of what happened, see:\nhttp://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~gabi/erth15/lecture09/vesuvius.html\n\nThis appears to give some pretty good information regarding it also:\nhttp://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_storia.htm
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From Wikipedia.org:\n\n" Fifty-seven people were killed and 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing its summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,364 feet (2,550 m) in elevation and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater (see geology section or 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens for more detail). The debris avalanche from the 1980 eruption was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.3 km3) in volume, making it the largest in recorded history. However, the scale of it still pales in comparison to far larger debris avalanches that have occurred in the geological past elsewhere on Earth."
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the question is vague..... u need to put a lil details so that we can answer according to wat u need.\notherwise the above answer is all about natural disasters.. floods, earthquakes, volcano erruption, n bla bla bla....
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It is caused by the movement of large plates on the earth's crust.  When these plates move into each other it causes a collision, which basicallly push them together - hence the reason for all the Mountains out west - 2 plates pushed together caused the ends to go up...hence mountains...but when these plates move you get the shaking, thus causing an earthquake.
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yes and it is due to erupt
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1) when the plates collide - eg himalayas\n2) when the plates pull apart - eg mid oceanic ridge, it is underwater but still a mountain chain\n3) when one subsides under another, when that plate melts, it can cause a chain of volcanoes, which can also make mountains - pacific rim
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See for yourself:\n\nhttp://www.solcomhouse.com/volcano.htm\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/group10_new.html\nhttp://www.exn.ca/volcanoes/causes.cfm\nhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/AboutVolcanoes/where_do_volcanoes_occur.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/10136/volcano/volctq.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano\n\nMore random links I keep at hand for God knows what uses.
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Eruptions! Earthquakes!  The cool exciting stuff!  What did you want to know about it?
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It is from the ruins of Pompeii.  The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD.\n\nThe volcano buried the city under many feet of ash and it was lost for 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery.
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many things can happen when a volcano erupt. it depends on the kind of eruption of volcano.\n\nMagma contains dissolved toxic gases (sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, etc...) that are released into the atmosphere during eruptions. Volcanic gases affect people, animals and agriculture: SO2 irritates skin and the tissues and mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and throat... sometimes CO2 may become concentrated at levels lethal to people and animals.\n\nEruptions may trigger lahars (a hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments flowing down the slopes of a volcano) directly by quickly melting snow and ice on a volcano or ejecting water from a crater lake.\n\nIn volcanoes with massive cones landslides may be generated.\n\nVolcanoes erupt lava and everything in the path of an advancing lava flow will be knocked over, surrounded, or buried by lava, or ignited by the extremely hot temperature of lava.\n\nWhen a volcano make an explosive eruption, pyroclastic flows can be generated. Pyroclastic flows are high-density mixtures of hot, dry rock fragments and hot gases that move away from the vent that erupted them at high speeds.
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Okay...well you have to check out this interactive link on the discovery channel's website.\nhttp://kids.discovery.com/games/pompeii/pompeii.html\nIt's pretty cool and informative.  It should tell you what you need to know.\n\nHere are some other resources:\nhttp://www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8361/1997/ellie.html\nhttp://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_index.htm\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_vesuvius.html
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Mt. Etna's eruptions, while obscuring visibility in the area surrounding the volcano, were captured by cameras on board the Terra and SeaWiFs satellites in recent days.\n\nThe eruption opened six vents in the mountain, releasing a cloud of ash stretching southeastward over the Mediterranean Sea, though the volatile mountain's lava flows have appeared to slowed.\n\nA new fissure cracked open at a height of 2,700 yards (2,470 meters) on the eastern side of the volcano, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, weakening the main lava flow that threatened the village of Nicolosi, a community of 5,000 people. \n\nThe magma pouring out of the new fissure, one of a half-dozen that have burst open on the almost 11,000-foot (3,350-meter) mountain, was heading toward the uninhabited Valle del Bove valley. \n\n"There are very slight signals that the eruption activity is diminishing. I am cautiously optimistic,'' said Alberto Di Pace, prefect of Catania, a city at the base of the volcano. \n\nBut experts say the volcano is highly unpredictable, making it extremely difficult to tell whether the eruptions will stop soon. In the past 20 days there have been more than 2,500 tremors under the mountain, with no signs of any let-up. \n\nCatania's international airport, which was shut for a second time on Monday as thick layers of volcanic ash covered the runway, was re-opened at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday. \n\nFor a week, Europe's most active volcano has been billowing huge clouds of smoke and black ash, and spitting rivers of lava, leading the government to declare a state of emergency. \n\nThe lava flow approaching Nicolosi has almost stopped as it pools in a shallow basin some 2.5 miles above the village. \n\nOn Sunday, the community organized a religious procession to pray that the flow be diverted or stopped. \n\nLegend has it that in 1886 the local archbishop managed to divert a wave of boiling magma descending on the village by brandishing before it a statue of Saint Anthony. \n\nThe magma has already damaged ski lifts dotting the volcano's slopes and civil protection teams were trying to save the ones left intact. \n\nMount Etna is a popular winter resort, but tourism officials say snow is unlikely to settle this winter because of the extreme heat of the lava. \n\nThe last time Etna posed a threat was in 1992 when lava streams headed toward Zafferana, a town of 7,000 people on Etna's lower slopes. The Italian military had to use controlled explosions to divert the flow.
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according to my source it is a volcanic remnant being... um, harvested (for lack of a better word) for lava rock.  Just a note, most active or recently (in geological history, not ours) active volcanos can be told by thier names, generally being called Mount ______, instead of ________ Mountain.  try it :)
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I don't know about the idea of the caldera rising and falling because of snow or air, but take a look at the website below.  There is a lot of information in the links on that page about Yellowstone.  I think that the subject is very interesting.
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I have some stats on the major eruptions in human history\n1980- Mount St. Helens killed 63 people and also stripped 10 kilometers of soil and life.\n\n1883- Krakatoa kille 35,000 people when it explosed with the force of several hydrogen boms.\n\n79- Vesuvius, the entire city of Pompeii was covered in 5 to 8 meters of ash.\n\n3600 years ago- Thera- 3 to 4 times more material erupted than Krakatoa.  May have caused the Minoan civilization extinction.
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I can see Mt. Hood out my window and I haven"t heard of any explosions. We keep a close watch on our volcanoes around here since Mt St. Helens erupted 25 years ago. Mt. Hood will erupt again in the future but hasn't since 1781. Check the link below.
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Today!\nIf you want to see recent photos, go here:\nhttp://www.volcanogallery.com/volcano_eruption.htm