In 79 AD the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by an enormous volcanic eruption. The devastation caused by the eruption of Vesuvius went on for two days, burying the two towns under superheated ash and mud. The destructive power of Vesuvius was estimated to be some 100,000 times greater than the atomic
Between the years of 1831 and 1833 the northern hemisphere was a lot cooler than it should have been. Scientists have long known that this significant and sudden cooling was caused by an enormous volcanic eruption in the year 1831, but the precise location of the volcano behind the climate change has long been a