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 * Mount Vesuvius **


 * - Italy about 9 km east of Naples **


 * - AD 79 erupted -> buried and destructed Pompeii and Herculaneum (Roman cities)**


 * - Eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 20.5 mi; spewed molten rock and pulverized pumice at 1.5 million tons/second**


 * - Victims died instantly**


 * - Erupted in 1906 and destroyed Naples -> Olympic games held in London for the first time**
 * last eruption in 1944**


 * - Composite volcano **


 * - It's a convergent plate boundary **


 * - The African and the Eurasian Plate are involved **

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