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  2. List of largest volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    The most famous and destructive historical eruptions are mainly of this type. An eruptive phase can consist of a single eruption, or a sequence of several eruptions spread over several days, weeks or months. Explosive eruptions usually involve thick, highly viscous, silicic or felsic magma, high in volatiles like water vapor and carbon dioxide.

  3. The Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in Human History

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    The eruption triggered massive mudslides that engulfed the town of Armero, killing more than 23,000 people. It was the worst natural disaster in South American history and one of the deadliest ...

  4. List of large volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    eruption episode N 6 Lake Mashū Hokkaidō: 10 38.3 [4] Nu-r 7 Gorely: Kamchatka 120 39 Southern sea cliffs 7 Kussharo: Hokkaidō: 170 39.3 Kp-1, Kutcharo Shoro Ash 7 Phlegraean Fields: Campanian volcanic arc: 430 - 680 39.9 Campanian Ignimbrite Eruption: 5 Galeras: Andes, Northern Volcanic Zone Un­known 40 6 Ksudach Kamchatka 40 40 Caldera I 6

  5. Timeline of volcanism on Earth - Wikipedia

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    The final eruptions in the creation of Banks Peninsula in New Zealand occurred about 9 million years ago. A major eruption of Gran Canaria took place around 14 million years ago. Approximately 23.03 million years BP, the Neogene period and Miocene epoch begin. Cerro Guacha, Bolivia; 5.6–5.8 Ma (Guacha ignimbrite). [61]

  6. ‘Mystery volcano’ that erupted and cooled Earth in 1831 has ...

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    What’s more, analysis of the caldera’s volume and sulfur isotopes suggested the crater formed after a massive eruption between 1700 and 1900, making Zavaritskii “the prime candidate” for ...

  7. Rabaul caldera - Wikipedia

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    683 AD ± 2 years: There was a VEI force 6 eruption at Rabaul, dated by corrected radiocarbon; [7] there is an opinion [8] that that eruption formed the Rabaul Caldera sea-inlet. 1808: It could be the source of the 1808 mystery eruption. 1878: Vulcan cone nearby was formed during a large eruption in 1878. [8]

  8. The supervolcano that killed the Neanderthals might be waking up

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    Whether we would be in any better shape today to deal with such a massive eruption — let alone a blast that rates an eight on the VEI, like the Toba eruption 75,000 years that may have caused a ...

  9. La Garita Caldera - Wikipedia

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    The La Garita Caldera is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada from 40 to 18 million years ago, and was the site of massive eruptions about 28.01 ± 0.04 million years ago, during the Oligocene Epoch. [4]