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tblue37

(64,982 posts)
1. Funny you should post this now. I posted thread a few minutes ago
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:30 PM
Jun 2018

about people in the path of the Guatemalan volcano' s pyroclastic flow refusing to get out of the way, because they want to get videos of the flow and ash cloud.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210692834

Imagine if there had been cell phones at Pompeii.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
3. My heart is pounding
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:36 PM
Jun 2018

I wanted to scream at 8 a.m. when smoke began to come out of Vesuvius "Get out! Get out! Go to your boats and sail away!" This is an extremely well-done animation. Thanks for posting it.

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
5. Smoke comes out of volcanoes like that all the time, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence.
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:55 PM
Jun 2018

No one could have known that this time it would prove so suddenly and irrevocably deadly. That's not what's gong to happen with Kilauea. If people ran away every time there was an earthquake, Tokyo would be a ghost city. Mt. Fuji is still an active volcano...

 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
4. Thanks for posting this.
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 02:48 PM
Jun 2018

By the time the Vesuvius eruption sputtered to an end the next day, Pompeii was buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash. About 2,000 people were dead. Some people drifted back to town in search of lost relatives or belongings, but there was not much left to find. Pompeii, along with the smaller neighboring towns of Stabiae and Herculaneum, was abandoned for centuries.

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/pompeii

Potentially active volcanoes in the US: 169

169 volcanoes
U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Program FAQs: "There are about 169 volcanoes in the United States that scientists consider active. Most of these are located in Alaska, where eruptions occur virtually every year.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&ei=WYgVW9vGFtzE0PEPwNCT0A4&q=potentially+active+volcanoes+in+the+us&oq=potentially+activ&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0l8.3330.7408.0.9516.17.17.0.0.0.0.249.1649.8j6j1.15.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..2.15.1645...0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i131k1j35i39k1j0i131i20i264k1j0i20i264k1j0i10k1.0.vWEXJu7Z70A

Also, if you are interested:

https://www.livescience.com/6441-volcanoes-dangerous.html

ChazInAz

(2,535 posts)
18. This past week I was in Washington state.
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 10:10 PM
Jun 2018

Driving around Seattle, in the shadow of Mount Rainier. In some of the smaller towns in the area were signs designating volcanic eruption evacuation routes. The citizens of Tacoma and Puyallup would have only forty-five minutes to get out of the path of the lahar, or pyroclastic flow. Everyone would be on those roads at once...it would be catastrophic.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
20. Did you hear the lahar sirens at noon?
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 11:11 PM
Jun 2018

Every weekday at noon, the state runs a test of the lahar warning sirens. They sound like those old WWII air raid sirens you hear in the movies.

It's kind of eerie-sounding.

For the first time ever, today I timed the test: the sirens sounds for six minutes without pause.

catbyte

(34,174 posts)
11. You don't need to, Vesuvius is an entirely different type of volcano than Mauna Loa.
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 03:46 PM
Jun 2018

Mauna Loa is a shield volcano that could never build up to an explosive eruption like Vesuvius, which is a complex stratovolcano. (I took several geophysics classes in college) Here's a comparison of the different volcanic eruption types (I hope it's not TMI ):

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catbyte

(34,174 posts)
9. I couldn't stand to hear the dogs barking, especially since I visited the ruins of
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 03:38 PM
Jun 2018

Pompeii and remember seeing an ash casting of a dog who had been left chained and obviously died in agony. Terrible, terrible. The death of the people was awful, too, don't get me wrong, but there was something particularly wrenching about that poor, trapped dog. Ugh.

deurbano

(2,891 posts)
12. Here is an interesting (and also horrifying) description of the same event:
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 04:20 PM
Jun 2018
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/how-pompeii-perished/

Even though I actually visited Pompeii almost 40 years ago, I failed to learn (or failed to remember if I did briefly learn it) that the eruption didn't involve lava flowing through the streets... which would have been much more survivable, according to the writer of the blog post linked above.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
14. When I attended art school in Rome we went on a "field trip" to both
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 05:22 PM
Jun 2018

Pompeii and Herculaneum and I like Herculaneum the most due to the newly discovered artifacts. I have seen the plaster casts of the citizens and dogs made from the empty space created by the decayed bodies encased in ash for centuries. It is amazing how well everything was preserved. One of the "interesting" things I noticed were the prostitutes' rooms. There were beds carved out of rock and even a pillow was part of the "sculpture bed". Afterwards I learned that there was hay and many blankets to make it more comfortable for a short visit.

FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
19. We visited Pompeii a few years ago. Highly recommended! It feels like the people
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 11:10 PM
Jun 2018

just vanished. The shops and wall art are still there and vivid. It make what happened to them all the more haunting that their city, their homes where preserved down thru the centuries by the very ash that snuffed them out.

The latin textbook that our sons used in school was an account of a banking family that had ridden horses that day away from where the destruction rained down. We were actually able to locate Caecilius Iucundus's family house and look around and marvel at the oh so familiar rooms.

https://vimeo.com/185534416

An intriguing fiction book set in the days leading up to the eruption is "Pompeii" by Robert Harris

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