Abstract
ON April 29, 30, and May 1, a constant series of explosions (boati) and rumblings accompanied by earthquakes, which shook the southern foot of Vesuvius, were very noticeable at Resina. About 2 a.m., on May 2, part of the new cone of eruption (formed during the last ten months) fell in, showing that the internal support of the lava column had been removed, in consequence of this filling the new dyke, the formation of which had given origin to the preceding sonorous and mechanical disturbances. On the same day at 3 p.m. the lava sank still lower in the conduit on account of the dyke reaching the surface at the upper part of the great cone. More of the eruptive cone crumbled in, and of course simultaneously a considerable outpour of lava took place from the dyke fissure which is situated on the south-east side of the great cone. This outflow soon formed a long tongue of lava reaching to the Pedimentina or lower.
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JOHNSTON-LAVIS, H. The New Eruption of Vesuvius. Nature 40, 34 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040034a0
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