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1600 eruption of Huaynaputina
The 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina was a VEI 6 plinian eruption in southern Peru that buried at least 10 villages, killed about 1,500 people, and cooled the Northern Hemisphere in 1601.
1630 eruption of Furnas
The 1630 eruption of Furnas was a VEI 5 eruption of Furnas volcano on São Miguel in the Azores, killing about 200 people and destroying the settlement of Furnas.
1631 eruption of Vesuvius
The 1631 eruption of Vesuvius was a sub-Plinian eruption that began on 16 December 1631, killed about 4,000 people, and ended roughly 500 years of quiescence.
1640 eruption of Tungurahua
The 1640 eruption of Tungurahua was a VEI 3 explosive eruption of the stratovolcano in central Ecuador, destroying the village of Cacha and killing 5,000 people.
1757 eruption of Sao Jorge
The 1757 eruption of São Jorge is a discredited eruption: the event of 9–10 July 1757 was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that killed about 1,000 people.
1784 eruption of Grimsvotn
The 1784 eruption of Grímsvötn refers to two eruption episodes in 1784 at Iceland's most active subglacial volcano, part of the two-year Laki–Grímsvötn episode of 1783–1785.
1794 eruption of Vesuvius
The 1794 eruption of Vesuvius was an explosive eruption in June 1794, the volcano's most powerful since 1631, whose lava largely destroyed Torre del Greco before reaching the sea.
1840 eruption of Ararat
The 1840 eruption of Ararat was a phreatic eruption on Mount Ararat's northern flank on 2 July 1840, coinciding with a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and destroying Akori village.
1856 eruption of Awu
The 1856 eruption of Awu was an explosive eruption of Awu volcano on Sangihe Besar Island, Indonesia, in March 1856, killing 2,806 people through pyroclastic flows and lahars.
1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera
The 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera was a deadly basaltic eruption in New Zealand on 10 June 1886 that destroyed the Pink and White Terraces.
1892 eruption of Awu
The 1892 eruption of Awu was an explosive eruption of Gunung Awu, a stratovolcano on Great Sangihe Island, Indonesia, that began on 7 June 1892 and killed about 1,532 people.
1986 eruption of Oku Volcanic Field
The 1986 eruption of the Oku Volcanic Field was a limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon on 21 August 1986, killing at least 1,700 people.
2002 Nyiragongo eruption
The 2002 Nyiragongo eruption was a flank eruption of Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that sent lava through Goma on 17 January 2002.
2021 Mount Nyiragongo eruption
The 2021 Mount Nyiragongo eruption was a flank eruption of Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, beginning on 22 May 2021 and killing 32 people.
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami was a violent submarine volcano eruption in Tonga on 15 January 2022, generating tsunamis across the Pacific.
Bezymianny
Bezymianny (Безымянный), an andesitic stratovolcano (2,882 m) in Kamchatka's Klyuchevskoy group, Russia; considered extinct until its catastrophic 1956 directed-blast eruption, now continuously rebuilding its lava dome with frequent explosive eruptions.
Hekla
Hekla is an active stratovolcano in southern Iceland, standing 1,490 m high and among the country's most active, erupting 23 times in historical time, most recently in 2000.
Nemrut Dagi
Nemrut Dagi (Nemrut Dağı), an active 2,948 m stratovolcano near Lake Van in eastern Turkey, holds a 9 x 5 km caldera with Nemrut Crater Lake and last erupted in 1650 CE, with earlier eruptions in 1441 and 1597.
Youngest Toba eruption
The Youngest Toba eruption was a VEI 8 supervolcanic eruption of the Toba volcano in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 74,000 years ago; its ash covered roughly 40 million km² of Earth's surface.