In Vaslui County , 40 localities remained without electricity , 25 households were destroyed Destroying by water and river deposits Placing , 15 people were evacuated Removing from their homes .

Several Roman settlements were obliterated Destroying and buried Destroying underneath massive pyroclastic surges and ashfall deposits , the best known being Pompeii and Herculaneum .

The site , lying in the Carson National Forest , is approximately southwest of Dulce , New Mexico and east of Farmington , and was chosen Choosing because natural gas deposits were known Know to be held Hold in sandstone beneath Leandro Canyon .