2016年3月17日 · Mount Vesuvius last erupted in March 1944, seven months after the Allied invasion of Italy. Credit: National Archives. Four-and-a-half years into World War II, the residents of San Sebastiano, Italy — a Neapolitan village on the western slopes of Mount Vesuvius — had already endured much misery: dictatorial rule, invasion, occupation and ...

2010年5月13日 · Vesuvius has erupted about three dozen times since 79 A.D., including a large, explosive eruption in 1631 that killed 4,000 people. The most recent eruption was from 1913-1944.

2009年11月24日 · On August 24, after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities, buried...

Vesuvius’ last eruption was in 1944 and it destroyed Massa di Somma and San Sebastiano and covered Ottaviano and the whole Southern Italy with ashes.

The eruption of Vesuvius on this day destroyed the villages of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Massa di Somma, and Ottaviano as well as parts of the village San Giorgio a Cremano. Twenty-six people were killed and thousands left homeless.

2016年2月3日 · Mount Vesuvius last erupted in March 1944. The eruption began with a modest effusive activity (18–21 March, phase I) and then moved on to a lava-fountain phase (21–22 March, phase II) that quickly culminated in a 24-h paroxysmal phase (22–23 March, phase III), during which the eruptive column reached its maximum altitude and ash carried ...

2024年3月15日 · Mount Vesuvius is famous for destroying Pompeii in AD79, but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II. Rock and ash filled the sky, and a flow of hot lava destroyed homes. Show more

2023年9月26日 · The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius was on March 18, 1944. This eruption lasted about 3 minutes, spewing a deadly mixture of ash and gas that killed 26 people, injured more than 100, and forced more than 12,000 to evacuate.

2024年3月18日 · Mount Vesuvius famously destroyed Pompeii in AD79, but the volcano last erupted 80 years ago in 1944, during World War Two. Angelina Formisano remembers seeing it happen as a child.

Exactly 70 years ago, in March 1944, British photographer George Rodger captured the last great eruption of Italy's legendary volcano.