Mt. Vesuvius by Lauren Hunt https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve Earth & Environmental Science en-us 2018-09-26 03:36:24 UTC 2018-09-26 04:19:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Location lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285844781 located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy]]> 2018-09-26 03:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285844781 lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845033 Latitude: 40°49′14"N 

 Longitude: 14°25′47"E
]]> 2018-09-26 03:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845033 Elevation lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845431 The Vesuvius is a distinctive cone-shaped mountain the height of which is measured around 4000 feet.]]> 2018-09-26 03:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845431 Size lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845602 Mount Vesuvius' peak reaches about 4,200 feet above sea level. The diameter of the volcano's crater is 2,100 feet with a depth of 750 feet.]]> 2018-09-26 03:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285845602 Current Status lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285846103 Active]]> 2018-09-26 03:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285846103 Most Recent Eruption lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285846383 March 17, 1944]]> 2018-09-26 03:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285846383 lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848300 The 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius created as much as it destroyed. Volcanic ash has a tendency to make the lands around it much more fertile, and this was no exception. While there were eventual benefits to the ordeal, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is still an event that many people fear going into the future.]]> 2018-09-26 04:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848300 Casualties lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848529 Approximately 2,000 people were killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii. However, only around 1,150 of the bodies have been found.
The death toll of the 1944 eruption is 28 people.]]> 2018-09-26 04:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848529 lauhun9582 https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848701 On March 17, Mount Vesuvius began an eruption that, over the ensuing week and a half, rained down rocks the size of basketballs, covered some areas with up to a meter of ash, and released a slow-moving wall of volcanic rock, lava and debris that crushed and burned everything in its path. U.S. newsreels  recorded the eruption and the evacuation of San Sebastiano’s residents, who, assisted by Allied soldiers, piled household goods and belongings onto wagons as lava advanced toward the village.]]> 2018-09-26 04:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lauhun9582/ed7ea3ndhzve/wish/285848701