Nearly 2.000 years ago, in AD 79, Mount Vesuvius, near Naples in Italy, erupted one
night. A river of burning rocks came down the
sides of the mountain. A massive cloud of
volcanic gas and ash covered the town of
Pompeii. The hot ash caught people inside their
houses and about 20.000 of them died. The
mountain erupted again in 1944 but this time
One of the most powerful eruptions of a volcano in Modern
times was on 27th August, 1883. The volcano on the
island of Krakatoa, in Indenosia, erupted with an
enormous bang! Volcanic rock and dust went 55
kilometres into the sky and some of it came down again,
5.300 kilometres away, ten days later. People in Australia
5.000 kilometres away, heard the explosion. The island of
Krakatoa completely disappeared. The eruption created a
huge wave, 36 metres high, and 36,380 people died in the
water of the wave.

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