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This list documents volcanic eruptions by human death toll. Volcanic eruptions. Human death toll Volcano VEI Location Year Eruption Source(s) 71,000 to 250,100+
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami. In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. [6] The eruption reached a very large and powerful climax nearly four weeks later, on 15 January 2022. [7]
2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions – Volcanic eruption in the Philippines; 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption; 2021–22 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami, a larger eruption that began the same month; List of volcanic eruptions by death toll; List of large volcanic eruptions in the 21st century
This is a list of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 4 or higher, and smaller eruptions that resulted in fatalities, significant damage or disruptions. As of 26 October 2024, the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century is the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami, and the ...
Volcanic ash (tuff) from Montserrat. The Soufrière Hills[needs IPA] is an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After a long period of dormancy, the Soufrière Hills volcano became active in 1995 and continued to erupt through 2010. [3] Its last eruption was in 2013. [2]
According to a Virunga National Park official, the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo is similar to the eruption in 2002, which caused the death of 250 people. In September 2020, Katcho Karume, director of the Goma Volcano Observatory, said that the lava lake had been rapidly filling, increasing the risk of an eruption in the next few years, though Karume also noted that an earthquake could trigger ...
USGS map of eruptive activity December 12, at 9:45 a.m. The 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa was an episode of eruptive volcanic activity at Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, located on Hawaiʻi island, Hawaiʻi. Mauna Loa began to erupt shortly before midnight HST on November 27, 2022, when lava flows emerged from fissure vents in Moku ...