Revelation 9 and Vesuvius

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The disaster in Revelation 9 is a mythological representation of Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD?
I mean this passages

9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit; 2 he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
 
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The Greek word abyssos that appears here in Revelation is consistently used in the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament, as the translation of the Hebrew word tehom, usually translated in English Bibles as “the deep.” This is what the old online Jewish Encyclopedia says about it:

Term for the תְּהוֹם (Gen. vii. 11) of the Old Testament, used in the apocalyptic, New Testament, and cabalistic literature for the place of punishment of the wicked; hell; the abode of certain demons.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/707-abyss

In Luke’s version of the miracle of the Gadarene swine, the demons plead with Jesus not to be sent down into the abyss:

 
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