How the Earth Was Made (2009)

Episode Overview

Mount Vesuvius, the world’s most perilous volcano, endangers three million lives. It unleashed the legendary ancient catastrophe that buried the Roman city of Pompeii, and its last eruption was filmed in 1944. Today, it sits at the heart of the densest volcanic population on Earth. New scientific findings reveal Vesuvius is capable of a far more massive eruption than previously imagined. Beneath it lies a vast, hidden magma chamber filled with boiling rock, poised to erupt.