The eruption of Mount Vesuvius was more severe because the eruption had no warning. They people that were living in Pompeii at the time didn't know that the past earthquake was a sign of future destruction.
Also, the people that lived in Pompeii had no clue that Mount Vesuvius was a REAL volcano because it had erupted 1800 years before the real eruption in 79 A.D. Because the earthquake was seventeen years before the eruption, the townspeople thought it was just a normal eruption and nothing would happen until the actual eruption came into play! |