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Your friendly neighborhood volcano

Pompeii victims photo by Aschwin Prein

Question 1:

For several days, tremors had shook the ground, and groundwater had changed it's course. On August 24, in the year 79, at 1:30 pm, Italy's Mt. Vesuvius roars to life. From the first signs of trouble, how long was it before Pompeii was destroyed?

	10 hours			3 hours

	30 minutes

Question 2:

There's more than just meets the eye. Japan's Mt. Asama began emissions in May, 1783. On August 5 of that year it finally erupted, initially killing 1,000 people. The volcano went on to kill many, many more people without erupting again, how?

	Hazardous fumes spread across Japan			The ash clouds

	People kept exploring the active volcano and died

Question 3:

April 10, 1815, Tambora volcano in Indonesia explodes, creating an ash plume estimated to be 28 miles high. The enormous amount of ash and debris would later cause a worldwide phenomenon known as what?

	The year without a summer			The Tambora quickstep

	Tambora toe

Question 4:

May 1883, after a quiet perioed of almost 200 years, the volcanic island of Krakatoa begins rumbling. On August 27, 1883, at 10 am, the loudest sound ever recorded by humans on Earth occurs when the island of Krakatoa explodes, and can be heard how far?

	500 miles away			1230 miles away

	2982 miles away