Th eruption of Vesuvius that buried
Pompeii in 79 AD was not on August 24-25 as previously though
but instead on October 24-25, according to an Italian-led study
published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews.
The study also said the devastating eruption scattered ash as
far as Greece.
The study, which supplies tools to mitigate the risk of similar
events, was carried out by Italy's National Institute of
Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in collaboration with
Cnr-Igag, the University of Pisa, the Laboratoire Magmas et
Volcans in Clermont-Ferrand and the Heriot-Watt University in
Edinburgh.
As well as burying and preserving Pompeii, the eruption did the
same, in a slightly different way that preserved organic
material, to nearby Herculaneum.
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