Avellino eruption
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The Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred c. 1995 BC. It is estimated to have had a VEI of 6, making it larger and more catastrophic than Vesuvius's more famous and well-documented 79 AD erupti
Thousands of footprints in the pyroclastic surge deposits of the Avellino eruption testify to an en masse exodus from the disaster zone. Photo credits: Pier Paolo Petrone, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Hut at the site of the village
Minoan eruption
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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera circa 1600 BC. It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultur
Avellino eruption
…had just obtained carbon dates of 3360±40 BP, or 1617–1703 calibrated BC. They were suggesting a coincidence of a number of eruptions, such as the Minoan eruption on Santorini. The hypothesis remains unverifiable a generation later, due to the overall imprecision of the dates. The eruption destroyed several Bronze…
Volcanic craters on Santorini, June 2001
Early phase of Late-Bronze-Age volcano eruption (~ 1500 BC), southern border of the Caldera island. The lower layer of pumice is finer, almost white and without rock intrusions.
Mansions and hotels atop steep cliffs.
Excavation of Akrotiri on Thera