There are many different types of volcanoes. Calderas, like Mount Vesuvius, consist of a large, cauldron-like hollow that forms after the emptying of a magma chamber during an eruption.

Volcanoes; Vesuvius eruption: Scientists map out destruction with 200,000 people living in red zone Experts have mapped out evacuation plans if ever there is another huge eruption at Mount Vesuvius.

(ANSA) - Pisa, May 15 - Italian geologists have plotted the first complete map of the volcanic risk from Mt Vesuvius near Naples, the only European volcano to have erupted in the last 100 years ...

PISA, Italy, May 16 (UPI) --An emergency preparedness "risk map" of Mount Vesuvius, Europe's only active volcano, has been prepared, Italian geologists said.The map of 650 square kilometers (251 ...

Express.co.uk ranks the five volcanoes most likely to erupt at ... Geologists recognise the 700,000-year-old Vesuvius as the world’s second most active ... Volcanoes Yellowstone volcano Maps USGS.

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow.

On August 24th of 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius began to erupt and to destroy thousands of people, animals, and plants. On this 1,937th anniversary of the blast, check out the hour-by-hour timeline for ...