Pompeii

Pompeii



-In 24 of august 79 AD volcano Vesuvius erupted and caused the destruction of four city's with one of them being the well known Pompeji. It is estimated that the volcano exploded over hundread million tons of cravel and rock up to fifteen kilometers height burying the two towns and thousands of people with them. The city of Pompeji still has parts that haven't been found under the crable, and the insident remains among the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the world.


-Pompeji has errupted since then a couple of times and in the year 1631 it claimed thousands of lives again. Althoug the erruption is not as faymous as the one that happened houndreads of years ago it is too considered as a horrible disaster. Later on t
he argeologial dig site of Pompeji and it's near by towns were declared as unescos world heritage place in 1997.


Sources: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompejihttp://tieku.fi/luonto/tulivuoret/historian-pahimmat-tulivuorenpurkaukset.