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Date: 2024-01-24

THE 12 BIGGEST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN RECORDED HISTORY
By Tia Ghose.
Published June 10, 2023.

From Krakatoa to the Tonga blast, here are some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
History has seen some monstrous volcanic eruptions, from Mount Pinatubo's weather-cooling burp to the explosion of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai on the island nation of Tonga.
The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), a classification system developed in the 1980 that's similar to the magnitude scale for earthquakes. The scale goes from 1 to 8, and each succeeding VEI is 10 times greater than the last.
There haven't been any VEI-8 volcanoes in the last 10,000 years, but human history has seen some powerful and devastating eruptions. Because it's extremely difficult for scientists to be able to rank the strength of eruptions in the same VEI category, here we present 11 of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history, meaning over the last 4,000 years, plus one VEI-8 eruption that happened in the distant past.

THE 12 BIGGEST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN RECORDED HISTORY
1) Yellowstone, 640,000 years ago (VEI 8)
2) Mount Tambora, 1815 (VEI 7)
3) Changbaishan Volcano, A.D. 1000 (VEI 7)
4) Mount Thera, approx. 1610 B.C. (VEI 7)
5) Ilopango Volcano, A.D. 431 (VEI 6 +)
6) Ambrym Island, A.D. 50 (VEI 6 +)
7) Mount Pinatubo, 1991 (VEI 6)
8) Novarupta, 1912 (VEI 6)
9) Santa María, 1902 (VEI 6)
10) Krakatoa, 1883 (VEI 6)
11) Huaynaputina, 1600 (VEI 6)
12) Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, 2022 (VEI 5.7)

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