Famous Volcanic-Buried Cities
Famous Volcanic-buried Cities is a structured history dataset with 8 entries. Its fields include City, Year Buried, Volcano. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 8 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: City, Year Buried, Volcano, Country, Deaths, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year Buried span
- 1600 to 1995
- Across 4 preview rows
- Volcano groups
- 5 distinct values
- Across 8 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing City, Year Buried, and Volcano across history entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 8 downloadable records
City↕ | Year Buried↕ | Volcano↕ | Country↕ | Deaths↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pompeii | 79 | Mount Vesuvius | Italy | 2,000+ | Ash-preserved Roman city, body casts, frescoes, lost for 1,500 years until 1748 rediscovery |
Herculaneum | 79 | Mount Vesuvius | Italy | 300+ (found) | Pyroclastic flow preserved wooden objects, scrolls, skeletons in boathouses |
Saint-Pierre | 1902 | Mount Pelee | Martinique (France) | 28,000-30,000 | Entire city wiped out in minutes, only 2 survivors including a prisoner in dungeon |
Plymouth | 1995 | Soufriere Hills | Montserrat | 19 (in 1997 flow) | Modern capital buried by pyroclastic flows, now ghost town, island half-abandoned |
Armero | 1985 | Nevado del Ruiz | Colombia | 23,000+ | Lahar (mudflow) buried town, Omayra Sanchez tragic rescue photo, worst disaster of 1985 |
Akrotiri | 1600 | Thera (Santorini) | Greece | Unknown (evacuated) | Bronze Age Minoan city preserved under ash, possible origin of Atlantis myth |
Oplontis | 79 | Mount Vesuvius | Italy | Unknown | Villa Poppaea, luxurious Roman villa near Pompeii attributed to Nero's wife |
Stabiae | 79 | Mount Vesuvius | Italy | Unknown | Seaside Roman resort villas, where Pliny the Elder died trying to rescue residents |
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