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From Krakatoa to the recent Tonga blast, here are some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, the largest eruption since 1912, is dwarfed by the eruptions in this list. In a volcanic eruption, lava, volcanic bombs, ash, and various gases are expelled from a volcanic vent and fissure.
Nothing is more terrifying than a huge volcanic eruption filling the sky. Here are the top ten biggest volcanic events ever recorded.
Garita Caldera is a large supervolcanic caldera in the San Juan volcanic field in the San Juan Mountains near the town of Creede in southwestern Colorado, United States. The eruption that created the La Garita Caldera is among the largest known volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history.
Satellite images of the 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai. This is a sortable list of large eruptions that occurred between 11.7 Ka and 450+ Ma. Uncertainties as to dates and tephra volumes are not restated, and references are not repeated.
The world's largest volcano, in Hawaii, is erupting for the first time in almost forty years.
The VEI 5 blasts were heard up to 310 miles away, making it the largest volcanic event in New Zealand’s history. It also has some ghost stories attached to it.
Mauna Loa, the world’s largest volcano, located on the south-central part of the island of Hawaii, U.S., and a part of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. One of the largest single mountains in the world, it rises to 13,677 feet above sea level and constitutes half of the island’s area.
Notice that Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, was going to erupt — as it did this week for the first time in nearly four decades — came to people on the Big Island of Hawaii...
According to the USGS, it is the largest known eruption since the Ordovician era, between 504 and 438 million years ago.