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Lake Taupo in the centre of New Zealand’s North Island is not recognised as such by most people, but it is actually the Caldera of a large rhyolitic volcano. This huge volcano has produced two of the world’s most violent eruptions in geologically...
2. January 186
Tongoa and Epi islands once formed part of a larger island called Kuwae. Local folklore tells of a cataclysmic eruption that destroyed this island, leaving the two smaller islands and an oval-shaped 12 x 6 km caldera in between...
1. February 1452
The Laki volcano eruption occurred in the June of 1783 in Iceland killing many thousands and spreading a massive haze that covered most of Europe and parts of North America. This cloud was even reported to have extended into Asia and North Africa...
2. June 1783
10 Apr. 1815. The Tambora eruption was the largest in modern history. According to the Global Volcanism Program, it was the only eruption in at least 1,000 years to rate a VEI 7. The eruption of Mt...
10. April 1815
27 Aug. 1883: The obliteration of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in a series of eruptions ending on Aug. 27, 1883, is, in many ways, the most famous modern volcanic cataclysm. The sound of the explosion was heard some 3,000 miles away, across the...
27. August 1883
Koryaksky erupted for the first time in recorded history in 1890, in an eruption characterised by the emission of lava from fissures which opened up on the south western flank of the volcano, and phreatic explosions...
3. March 1890
The morning of June 6th arrived on the Alaska peninsula to find the area which is now Katmai National Monument being shaken by numerous strong, shallow earthquakes. The most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th Century was about to begin – but very...
6. June 1912
Little is known about the historical activity of Katmai volcano before the great 1912 eruption. Early U.S Coast and Geodetic Survey maps suggest a pre-caldera summit elevation of about 7,500 ft (2,300 m), and local villagers reported in 1898 that one...
9. June 1912
June 12, 1991, eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines – one of the smaller eruptions that preceded the main eruption on June 15. That eruption was the biggest since 1912 – a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index It was the second largest volcanic...
15. June 1991
Seismic activity had occurred in 1897–1898, 1933–1937, and again in 1966–1967, but the eruption that began on July 18, 1995, was the first since the 19th century. When pyroclastic fluand mudflows began occurring regularly, Plymouth was evacuated, and...
25. June 1997
The island is a granitic composite cone in origin, and the main volcano, Mount Oyama, has erupted several times in recent history A lava flow in 1940 killed 11 people, and other eruptions occurred in 1962 and 1983...
14. July 2000
Lava lakes reformed in the crater in eruptions in 1982–1983 and 1994. Another major eruption of the volcano began on January 17, 2002. A 13 km fissure opened in the south flank of the volcano, spreading in a few hours from 2800 m to 1550 m elevation,...
17. January 2002
The largest eruption of the last hundred years occurred in 1930, and resulted in the deaths of several people and the destruction of a number of houses by flying volcanic bombs. Large eruptions occur at intervals of years to decades, and the most...
30. December 2002
The eruption, which carried a risk of lava flows and deadly volcanic gas, caused the evacuation of 40,000 residents. The crater was clearly changed by the April 2005 eruption. A grey field of ash surrounds the crater and the caldera itself seems...
19. April 2005
On March 17, 2006 at 8:21 a.m. NZDT, a 40-second long volcanic eruption occurred at the Green Lake. At the time when 33-year-old DOC worker, was at the crater taking water temperature measurements...
17. March 2006
No casualties were recorded from the 1984 eruption after more than 73,000 people were evacuated from the danger zones as recommended by PHIVOLCS scientists. Pyroclastic flows killed 77 people, mainly farmers, in Mayon’s fatal eruption of 1993...
14. July 2006
In 1999, after a long period of rest, the volcano started an eruptive process that continues to this day (as of September 2010). After the first eruptions in October 1999 which produced a major ash out-fall and led to the temporary evacuation of more...
17. August 2006
On the evening of September 30, 2007, Jebel at Tair erupted, sending lava down its flanks and releasing a cloud of volcanic ash. On October 8, 2007, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ASTER on NASA’s Terra satellite...
30. September 2007
The Chilean government began an evacuation of the nearby town of Chaiten (population 4,200) and the surrounding area the same day, the main phase of which was completed by May 3, 2008. By the afternoon of May 3, the plume of ash from the eruption had...
3. May 2008
On August 7, 2008, Kasatochi began erupting explosively with an ash plume maintaining an altitude of 35,000 feet and reaching 45,000 feet. As the eruption became imminent, it forced two biologists from the U.S...
8. August 2008
Colombia’s Nevado del Huila volcano erupted at 9:45 p.m. unleashing two avalanches and waves of lahars and mudslides down the River Paez killing at least a dozen people and destroying about 26 houses, a school, a football stadium and five bridges, the...
20. November 2008
On January 30, 2009, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) warned that an eruption was imminent, sending experienced Alaskans shopping for protection against a dusty shower of volcanic ash that could descend on south-central Alaska...
22. March 2009
Eyafjallajökull volcano (its name meaning Island-Mountain under a glacier) under the small homonymous glacier in southern Iceland erupted spectacularly on 20 March 2010, after having been dormant for almost 200 years...
20. March 2010
For the first time in 52 years, Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range erupted spewing ash as high as 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) into the air. Shinmoedake is a volcano on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu...
26. January 2011
The volcano was in a dormant state since an eruption in 1929, but on the second of September 2009 it was reported by Georgina Cooper for the Reuters news agency that the crater lake temperature had risen 10 degrees Celsius in a week and plumes of steam...
8. February 2011
Nyamulagira volcano (also known as Nyamuragira) began an eruption that happens about every two years. The eruption could be seen clearly from the Virunga park headquarters – probably the best view you could ask for...
6. November 2011
