00:07POMPEI
00:30POMPEI
00:30Creating a series of fast-moving avalanches of superheated gas, ash and pumice, known as pyroclastic surges.
00:39These surges hit the cities traveling at over 110 kilometers, that's 70 miles an hour.
00:47The population of Herculaneum, we think, died around midnight.
00:52POMPEI died at around 7 or 8 the next morning.
00:58None of the women, children, men and animals who were actually in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the time survived.
