Terrible tragedy.
August 24, 79, one of the most catastrophic eruptions of the volcano Vesuvius. The Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia, located at the foot of the volcano, were destroyed. Vesuvius gave birth to a giant, hot cloud of stones, ash and smoke up to 33 km high, releasing thermal energy many times greater than the one that was released during the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima.
According to the available estimates, due to abundant ash deposition and hydrothermal pyroclastic flows that reached temperatures of up to 700 ° C, about 16,000 people died in Pompeii and Herculaneum