List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

Volcanic eruptions can be highly explosive, volatile, or neither. Certain volcanoes have undergone catastrophic eruptions, killing countless numbers of people, and this list attempts to document those volcanic eruptions by death toll.

Volcanic eruptions
Death Toll Perhaps left only 10,000 humans alive on earth Volcano Location Date Between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago 1783

Lake Toba (see also Toba Indonesia catastrophe theory)

[1] [2] Unknown precisely: perhaps 6 million, including a million in Japan, a [2] similar number in France, many in the rest of northern Europe and in Egypt. Killed 9,350 people in Iceland, about 25% of the island's population. Unknown. May have contributed to the fall of Minoan civilization, famine in China, and the collapse of the Xia dynasty. Unknown. No less than two million. One-third of Russia was killed; see Russian famine of 16011603 92,000

Laki (Grimsvtn)

Iceland

Santorini (see Minoan eruption) (aka Thera) Huaynaputina

Greece

Between 1650 and 1500 BC 1600

Peru

Mount Tambora (see also Indonesia Year Without a Summer) Krakatoa Mount Pele Nevado del Ruiz Mount Vesuvius Mount Unzen Mount Kelut Santa Maria Mount Kelut Mount Galunggung El Chichn Mount Vesuvius Mount Lamington Indonesia Martinique Colombia Italy Japan Indonesia Guatemala Indonesia Indonesia Mexico Italy Papua New Guinea Canada St. Vincent Indonesia Indonesia Philippines Philippines Japan Ecuador Philippines

1815

36,000 33,000 23,000 18,000 15,000 10,000 6,000 5,115 4,000 3,500 3,360 2,942

1883 1902 1985 79 1792 1586 1902 1919 1822 1982 1631 1951

2,000 1,680 1,584 1,369 1,335 1,335 1,151 1,000 700

Tseax Cone Soufrire Mount Agung Mount Merapi Mount Mayon Mount Taal Mount Asama Cotopaxi Mount Pinatubo

1775 1902 1963 1930 1897 1911 1783 1877 1991

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Mount Merapi Nyiragongo Indonesia Democratic Republic of the Congo New Zealand New Zealand Japan United States Japan Eritrea Colombia 2010 2002

353 245

152 150 150 57 43 31 9 [5] [4]

Mt Ruapehu, Tangiwai Mount Tarawera Torishima Mount St. Helens Mount Unzen Nabro Volcano Galeras

1953 1886 1902 1980 1991 2011 1993

References
[1] (http:/ / www. history. com/ shows/ how-the-earth-was-made/ videos#how-the-earth-was-made-iceland) [2] 1783: The summer of acid rain (http:/ / www. nhne. org/ news/ NewsArticlesArchive/ tabid/ 400/ articleType/ ArticleView/ articleId/ 4089/ language/ en-US/ 1783-The-Summer-Of-Acid-Rain. aspx), The Economist, 19 December 2007. [3] http:/ / www. thejakartaglobe. com/ home/ alert-level-lowered-as-indonesias-merapi-settles-down/ 409979 [4] http:/ / query. nytimes. com/ mem/ archive-free/ pdf?res=9406E7DC1030E733A2575AC1A96E9C946397D6CF [5] http:/ / www. irinnews. org/ report. aspx?reportid=93161

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