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2.  The longitude and latitude of Mt. Vesuvius is 40.8206° north and 14.4297° east.  It is close to the shore of the Gulf of Naples in Italy Location of Mount Vesuvius

3.  Rome is the nearest major city to Mt. Vesuvius  Rome is 188 km northwest from Vesuvius, close to Italy’s West coast  Rome’s population is 2,761,477

4.  Mt. Vesuvius is a Stratovolcano, or a composite volcano, which forms when 2 tectonic plates rub against each other to create magma from melted rock. http://www.destination360.com/ europe/italy/naples/mount- vesuvius

5.  The most recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius was the two week long eruption in 1944.  It began on March 18, 1944 and finally ended on March 29, 1944.  The most destructive eruption was in 79 AD  On August 24, 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupted, spewing tons of molten ash, and sulfuric gas into the atmosphere. poisonous vapors the area suffocated the people of Pompeii http://worldislanparadise.com/backpacker- zone/adventure-in-modunt-vesuvius- volcano/adventure-in-mount-vesuvius- volcano1

6. About 17 years before Mount Vesuvius’s most destructive eruption (79 AD), there was a very powerful earthquake. This destroyed a lot of land/manmade structures. Some of this damage was not fully repaired by the time that Mount Vesuvius catastrophically erupted.

7. Vesuvius is a part of a large line of volcanoes (Campanian) which was formed over a subduction zone created by the convergence of the African and Eurasian plates. SO a convergent boundary is responsible for Mount Vesuvius.

8. The African Plate pushed under the Eurasian Plate. The African Plate was pushed down to deep and hotter parts of the earth and since magma is less dense than the rock around it, the magma was pushed upward. When the magma gets near a weak spot, it pushes through Earth’s surface, making a volcano. http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/ nature_gallery/mountains.htm

9.  Vesuvius is a volcano inside of a volcano  Roman mythology called Mount Vesuvius a “hill that anciently vomited fire.”  The eruption of Vesuvius changed the course of the Sarno River  In 79 AD, when Mt. Vesuvius had its most destructive eruption, most villagers ran towards the eruption area because they thought it was safe there.  When archaeologists started studying the buried city of Pompeii, they filled shells of the body’s with plaster to make statues.

10.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VnGn_ gx98&feature=player_detailpage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VnGn_ gx98&feature=player_detailpage  http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/ 29456-assignment-discovery-eruption-of-mt- vesuvius-video.htm http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/ 29456-assignment-discovery-eruption-of-mt- vesuvius-video.htm  http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/ 30122-assignment-discovery-mount-vesuvius- destroys-pompeii-video.htm http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/ 30122-assignment-discovery-mount-vesuvius- destroys-pompeii-video.htm