Comments by "Jake Alter" (@jakealter5504) on "Pompeii Facts That Will Blow Your Mind" video.

@VesuviusGaming-um5yn true but Vesuvius is actually overdue since it has a tendency to erupt every 60-65 years on average since the Pompeii eruption and the last eruption was in 1944. What makes it even worse is that Vesuvius tends to have a vei 5-6 eruptions every 2,000 years and it’s getting dangerously close to that 2,000 years since the last one mark (the last one being the Pompeii eruption). I’d say that we are more likely to see a major eruption from Vesuvius within the next century or two than we are to seeing Yellowstone erupt within the next millennium
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Some of Vesuvius’s past eruptions actually have reached the the area where Naples is now so it definitely could destroy the city with a large enough eruption
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@VesuviusGaming-um5yn very true. If it had a vei 5-6 eruption now it could easily overtake the 1815 Tambora eruption as the deadliest in history since millions of people live in Vesuvius’s danger zone and evacuations would be very difficult since a lot of the buildings in that area are not built up to seismic code. The only way that it would be worse is if Campi Flegrei were to have a major eruption since part of Naples is actually within the caldera of Campi Flegrei.
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It also makes you realize the terrifying fact that Vesuvius can EASILY do it again but to Naples
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@VesuviusGaming-um5yn yup, Tambora was much worse
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@VesuviusGaming-um5yn nope but there have been times where Vesuvius would erupt multiple times within that amount of time, it’s just that the longest that Vesuvius seems to go between eruptions since 79 CE is around 65 years on average
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That was due to pyroclastic surges, it didn’t happen immediately
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21stcenturyenigma not some, that happened to pretty much all of them
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@NoxVicticus actually both cities were hit by pyroclastic surges, Pompeii just had a higher population
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Beware Rusnya their brains basically did
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It’s because of heat contraction in the body
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