The eruption in 79 AD was NOT unexpected. Why do you think so many people escaped? For about two months before the big bang the area had experienced a series of earth tremors and the water supply was drying up. The smart ones got out. The ones who stayed were the ones who, for some reason could not leave or simply "didn't believe it was anything serious". This accounts for the low death toll in relationship to the total population.
The eruption of Mr. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.
It was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompeii in 79.
In 79 AD Pompeii was destroyed by the volcano, Mt. Vesuvius.
The eruption of Vesuvius that devastated Pompeii happened in 70 AD.
It was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius erupting Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city of Pompeii under a thick layer of volcanic ash and pumice. This catastrophic event resulted in the sudden and tragic destruction of the city and its inhabitants.
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city of Pompeii occurred in 79 AD.
The eruption of Mr. Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.
Pompeii was buried by the violent, explosive eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Pompeii is located near Mount Vesuvius, which is a composite volcano. However, Pompeii itself is not a volcano but rather an ancient Roman city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii was a coastal Roman town that was buried by an ingnimbrite eruption from mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii is the city that was famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Pompeii does not erupt. Pompeii was a city that was buried by ash and pumice in 79 AD, during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius.
The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii, was a Plinian eruption. In fact, it was the description of this eruption by Pliny the Younger that lead to the term Plinian.