MOUNT VESUVIUS TODAY
Well over a thousand years Mount Vesuvius could erupt again at any time now.
Vesuvius will definitely erupt again, because it is an active volcano, but when that will happen is something you can't predict.
Since burying Pompeii in 79AD, the well known volcano has erupted again over 30 times. Most recently in 1944, when it killed 26 people. Some experts are convinced that Mount Vesuvius is due for another major eruption.
Italy has drawn up emergency plans which depending on the scale of the eruption, will regard different levels of safety.
Italy's civil protection agency has planned an emergency plan, which sets out four levels of alarm being given, within 72 hours of 550,000 people living in 18 towns in a 200 square kilometre "red zone".
After the start of an eruption, residents of a larger "yellow zone" may be evacuated if ash fall and gasses released by the volcano create danger.
Vesuvius will definitely erupt again, because it is an active volcano, but when that will happen is something you can't predict.
Since burying Pompeii in 79AD, the well known volcano has erupted again over 30 times. Most recently in 1944, when it killed 26 people. Some experts are convinced that Mount Vesuvius is due for another major eruption.
Italy has drawn up emergency plans which depending on the scale of the eruption, will regard different levels of safety.
Italy's civil protection agency has planned an emergency plan, which sets out four levels of alarm being given, within 72 hours of 550,000 people living in 18 towns in a 200 square kilometre "red zone".
After the start of an eruption, residents of a larger "yellow zone" may be evacuated if ash fall and gasses released by the volcano create danger.