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  2. List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    An eruption on April 11 ejected a cloud of volcanic gas and ash that reached a height of 20 km (12 mi) and spread over an area of 108,000 km 2 (42,000 sq mi). [10] Pyroclastic flows from the eruption traveled up to 19 km (12 mi) away from the volcano.

  3. Timeline of volcanism on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a sortable summary of 27 major eruptions in the last 2000 years with VEI ≥6, implying an average of about 1.3 per century. The count does not include the notable VEI 5 eruptions of Mount St. Helens and Mount Vesuvius.

  4. List of largest volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupts again. See the photos.

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    The last eruption on Kilauea was in June 2024 and lasted about five days. The volcano also erupted in September 2023 and lasted for a week, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was not ...

  6. 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive eruption took place on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am. The eruption, which had a volcanic explosivity index of 5, was the first to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California. [2]

  7. List of volcanic eruptions by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Volcanic eruptions can be highly explosive. Some volcanoes have undergone catastrophic eruptions, ... This page was last edited on 12 January 2025, at 14:25 (UTC).

  8. Biggest volcanic eruptions in the last 10 years as Iceland ...

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    The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia saw an eruption on 22 December 2018 which caused a deadly tsunami, with waves surging up to five meters in height. The tsunami killed at least 437 ...

  9. 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia

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    The 1991 eruption rated 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index and came some 450–500 years after the volcano's last known eruptive activity. The eruption ejected about 10 km 3 (2.4 cu mi) of material, making it the largest eruption of the 20th century since that of Novarupta in 1912 and some ten times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St ...