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  2. Long Valley Caldera - Wikipedia

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    Map of Long Valley Caldera Early winter in Long Valley, 2017. Long Valley Caldera is a depression in eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain.The valley is one of the Earth's largest calderas, measuring about 20 mi (32 km) long (east-west), 11 mi (18 km) wide (north-south), and up to 3,000 ft (910 m) deep.

  3. List of largest volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    Taupō Volcano—Oruanui eruption: 0.027: Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand 1,170 Most recent VEI 8 eruption [37] Mangakino Caldera—Ongatiti–Mangatewaiiti 1.21 Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand 1,150 [26] Huaylillas Ignimbrite 15 Bolivia 1,100 Predates half of the uplift of the central Andes [38] Bursum—Bloodgood Canyon Tuff: 28.5

  4. List of volcanoes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption

  5. One of California's riskiest volcanoes has been seeing more ...

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    One explosive eruption in 1915 obliterated a forest and created a gigantic mushroom cloud 30,000 feet high that could be seen as far as away as Eureka and Sacramento and blew volcanic ash 280 ...

  6. List of volcanic eruptions 1500–2000 - Wikipedia

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    A major eruption on 25 June 1997 caused pyroclastic flows to move at 60–100 mph, which killed 19 people and destroyed towns. [130] 2 Kanlaon [131] Philippines 1996 3 24 mountain climbers hiked the volcano when it erupted without warning on 10 August 1996, resulting in 3 fatalities. [132] 1 Yakedake [133] Japan 1995 4

  7. Bishop Tuff - Wikipedia

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    The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff which formed 764,800 ± 600 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the approximately six-day eruption that formed the Long Valley Caldera. [1] [2] [3] Large outcrops of the tuff are located in Inyo and Mono Counties, California, United States. Approximately 200 cubic kilometers of ash and tuff erupted ...

  8. Study estimates when Yellowstone National Park's giant ... - AOL

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    Known as a super eruption for its magnitude, the event emptied out enough volcanic material to produce the 30-by-40-mile-wide caldera. The National Park Service said the eruption covered an area ...

  9. List of large volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    eruption episode L 7 Phlegraean Fields: Campanian volcanic arc: Un­known 15.7 5 Mount Vesuvius Campanian volcanic arc 1.3 19.3 Green Pumice: 7 Long Island, PNG Bismarck Volcanic Arc 100 19.3 Kiau Ignimbrite 7 Zavaritzki Caldera: Simushir, Kuril Islands: 200 20 6 Rabaul: Bismarck Volcanic Arc >10 21 Kulau Ignimbrite 6 Menengai