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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a Rare card
In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano located in the modern-day region of Campania, Italy, erupted, causing one of the deadliest eruptions in history.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 440,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The event destroyed several Roman towns and ______ in the area.
Answer
settlements. The event destroyed several Roman towns and settlements in the area. From the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD article on Wikipedia.
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Answer
Franco-Prussian War. Franco-Prussian War 88 · Franks 85 · Alexander III of Russia 81 · Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD 77 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Vesuvius violently ejected a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km, ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- The event gives its name to the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption, characterised by columns of hot gases and ash reaching the stratosphere, although the event also included pyroclastic flows associated with Peléan eruptions.
- The event destroyed several Roman towns and settlements in the area.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD article was read about 440,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Martin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
