In the city of Pompeii, Italy, was a volcano, Mount Vesuvius. Two thousand years ago people did not know this volcano was active. This volcano was inactive for 1500 years and was brought back to live. On the last day of Pompeii,27th August 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius started smoking, but people didn't care and took no notice of it at all. Everyone was just doing their own j
ob and thought that the smoke coming out from the mountain didn't mean anything.
When the volcano started erupting, the ashes rose fifteen kilometers up into the sky, blocking the whole sky and the sun, and it suddenly turned pitch dark. At first people did not know it was a volcano erupting because they had no idea what a volcano was, so they just watched in astonishment; but also fear. Just after a few minutes people started panicking and was very frightened. While the ashes started to rise, it also started to freeze and turned into pumice. Pumice are little small stone pebbles; one hundred million tonnes of pumice dropped down from the volcano, which caused a lot of injuries and killed many people. The pumice that landed on roofs caused some houses to collapse, which caused some people to die. A bunch of people gathered onto the beach to see what was actually happening.
Suddenly two enormous clouds of poisonous gas, 5 times hotter than boiling water, gushed down the mountain. One surging towards the beach, and the other down to Pompeii. The hot gas is so boiling hot that doesn't only kill people standing on the beach but made their brains and bones boil and turned into charcoal. The gas which went towards Pompeii didn't reach the main part of the city, but because there is so much of the toxic smoke, people die of suffocation. 300 men and women who were on boats and close enough for the other island also immediately suffocated and died. These dead bodies were found on boats.
7 hours later all the houses and streets are deserted, not leaving even one person alive. Now if you visit Pompeii, you will see all the ruins 2000 years ago.
ob and thought that the smoke coming out from the mountain didn't mean anything.When the volcano started erupting, the ashes rose fifteen kilometers up into the sky, blocking the whole sky and the sun, and it suddenly turned pitch dark. At first people did not know it was a volcano erupting because they had no idea what a volcano was, so they just watched in astonishment; but also fear. Just after a few minutes people started panicking and was very frightened. While the ashes started to rise, it also started to freeze and turned into pumice. Pumice are little small stone pebbles; one hundred million tonnes of pumice dropped down from the volcano, which caused a lot of injuries and killed many people. The pumice that landed on roofs caused some houses to collapse, which caused some people to die. A bunch of people gathered onto the beach to see what was actually happening.
Suddenly two enormous clouds of poisonous gas, 5 times hotter than boiling water, gushed down the mountain. One surging towards the beach, and the other down to Pompeii. The hot gas is so boiling hot that doesn't only kill people standing on the beach but made their brains and bones boil and turned into charcoal. The gas which went towards Pompeii didn't reach the main part of the city, but because there is so much of the toxic smoke, people die of suffocation. 300 men and women who were on boats and close enough for the other island also immediately suffocated and died. These dead bodies were found on boats.
7 hours later all the houses and streets are deserted, not leaving even one person alive. Now if you visit Pompeii, you will see all the ruins 2000 years ago.
