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The zone is composed by two subzones, called red zone 1 and 2. The former is the most dangerous area in the case of an eruption, being at greatest risk from pyroclastic flows. The red zone 2 will be subjected to falling ash and lapilli, whose intensity will depend on the intensity and direction of the winds at the time. [5]
Mount Vesuvius violently ejected a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Montecito (archaic use of Spanish for woodland or countryside) [6] is an unincorporated town in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Located on the Central Coast of California , Montecito sits between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean .
The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park is thought to be the site where more than 300 men tried in vain to save themselves while awaiting rescue by Pliny the Elder.
Vesuvius red zone; Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD This page was last edited on 24 June 2022, at 19:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Mount Vesuvius looms over the palatial Forum Romanum, the civic center of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city 25 kilometers southeast of Naples, in southwestern Italy. Looking at the collapsed peak of ...
Mount Vesuvius (/ v ɪ ˈ s uː v i ə s / viss-OO-vee-əs) [a] is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc.