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Mount Vesuvius Research Paper

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Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano in the mainland of Europe, and it has produced some of the largest volcanic eruptions to date. Mount Vesuvius, near Pompeii, Italy first erupted in 79 AD (After Death). Within 25 hours after the first eruption most of the nearby Roman cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed. Mount Vesuvius has had 8 major eruptions since the first and most famous eruption in 79 AD, with an eruption in 1944 being the most recent. Mount Vesuvius is still considered to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes because of it’s largely populated surrounding cities, like Naples that has an approximate population of 960 000 people. Since 1944, there have been hundreds of minor earthquakes within Mount Vesuvius’s

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