Why Did Pompeii Occur

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I t has been more than 70 years since the Mt.Vesuvious disaster rocked Pompeii. On 1944 august 24 a shallow quake shook Pompeii and the volcano started to get magma and erupt. The quake happened 16 years before which messed up the volcano which finally made it heat up magma and erupt
Before the Pompeii incident happened people were just sitting around and doing what they do every day. And when the volcano started to erupt they didn’t know what to do because they were unprepared and didn’t know it was going to happen. They didn’t know it was going to happen because there was no volcanologist to tell them if it look liked it was going to erupt or not.
When the volcano was erupting form a natural outcome people were in shock and they got

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