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And now, the History of Volcanoes with Dr. Textbook.

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Hello! Did you know that the word volcano comes from the Roman god of fire Vulcan?

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And that the early Hawaiians told legends of their goddess of fire Pele.

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In the year 79 A.D., the Romans were the first ones to write an eyewitness account of an actual volcanic eruption

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Falling ash spewed out of Mount Vesuvius, and the ash and the mud flows combined to bury the nearby city of Pompeii

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thus killing about 2,000 people.

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2,000 years later, archaeologists actually unearthed this ancient city of Pompeii.

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In April 1902, Mount Pele, not related to the Hawaiian goddess of fire, in the Caribbean Sea exploded

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killing 28,000 residents in just seconds in the little town of St. Pierre.

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Closer to home, in 1980, the sleeping giant Mount St. Helens erupted

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to become the most destructive volcano in U.S. history.

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The eruption had the force of 10 million tons of dynamite

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and shook the Cascade mountain range in Oregon and the state of Washington.

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Soon, in honor of all the gods of fire, I will attempt to find out what really makes a volcano come alive.

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Oh! Oh!