Mount Vesuvius is located in Italy. It’s the only active volcano in Rome. It is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. The volcanic ash buried the city of Pompeii. Pompeii was slowly recovered by an earthquake. In Pompeii, ash blocked the sun by1:00 p.m. and the people tried to clear heavy ash from rooftops as it fell at a rate of about 6 inches an hour. It erupted in 79 A.D. Few people escaped this eruption. The people died of suffocation from the gases that came from the volcano. The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius was in 1944.
