10 Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption in the World - Events volcanoes, are very common. Even some historians earthquake records mention that big and terrible eruption has occurred several times in this world. TIME magazine, make a list of the most famous mountains worldwide and the damage they cause.
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Here this, 10 most powerful volcanic eruptions in the world's
1. Mount Vesuvius
This active volcano is located in the bay Maples in southern Italy. As far as is known, Vesuvius has erupted 30 times.
The most famous eruption occurred in 78 AD, the eruption of lava and ash for days, burying Pompeii and Stabiae with ash. Pompeii lost for 1,600 years. A writer, Pliny the Younger describes the sudden eruption was followed by a thick veil of dust that dropped people who tried to flee. The actual death toll from the eruption is unknown, but according to archaeologists, there are around 1,000 people.
2. Krakatau
In 1883, Krakatau erupted. Strength is terrible, 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb. Explosions and rumbling sounds that spewed rocks could be heard from a distance of thousands of miles - even to the small islands in the East African sea.
Hundreds of people on the island of Sumatra, was killed instantly when the heat hit their house dust. Tempest did not stop there. Krakatau eruption triggered mega-tsunami. It is estimated more than 36,000 people were killed at that time. And many victims who could not be buried.
After the eruption, Krakatau sank into the sea, but after realizing that the new island appeared in the same location in 1927 and issued occasional bursts of lava. It was called Anak Krakatau.
3. St Helens
The most famous mountain eruptions that occurred on May 18, 1980. The eruption of a volcano eruption worst eruption in terms of both power and economic losses in the history of the United States. 57 people were killed, and the top of the mountain was reduced from 2,950 meters to 2,550 m. Now the site of the eruption Volcano National Monument Mt. Helens.
4. Tambora
Data Volcanic explosivity index (VEI), an index similar eruption on the Richter scale for measuring the strength of earthquakes - there are on a scale of 1-8.
The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 is on a scale of 7. That means very damaging. Tambora blast making Sumbawa and surrounding areas are in darkness. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the eruption, tsunami, followed later, famine and disease.
Strength of Tambora was the largest eruption ever recorded in history. Heat that blasts pierce the atmosphere and global climate change. There was no summer in 1816 in Europe and North America - "the year without summer '. Tambora down into the ground a few thousand feet, leaving a large crater at its peak.
5. Mauna Loa
Is the largest volcano in the world in terms of - and one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the United States and the State of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. He is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at about 18,000 cubic miles.
Mauna Loa is one of the most active in the world. Since 1843, Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times, last in 1984.
6. Eyjafjallajokull
Although not many people can pronounce the name correctly and smoothly, the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland spewing volcanic ash is confusing, since disrupt European air traffic.
Thousands of passengers stranded at the airport, disrupted economies, agricultural goods rot because they can not be sent.
The first eruption of this mountain took place on 20 March. But the next eruption, April 14 that cause havoc. The airline industry lost U.S. $ 1 billion.
7. Mount Pelee
Pelee mountain with an altitude of over 4,500 feet is located in the French territory of Martinique, known for its eruption in May 1902, is expected to cost the lives of more than 30,000 people and destroyed St. Pierre.
8. Thera
Around 3,500 years ago, a large disaster shook the Mediterranean. Volcano Thera (later known as the Santorini island of Greek) exploded with what is estimated at four to five times the strength of the eruption Krakatau in 1883.
Massive eruption of Thera led to the extinction of the Minoan culture. Also provide ispirasi in Ancient Greek culture. One of them, the legend of "The Lost Atlantis".
9. Nevado del Ruiz
Eruptions actually small, producing only 3 percent over the ejected ash of Mount St Helens in 1980.
However, the 1985 eruption produced lava which buried the city and caused the death of 23,000 people - the deadliest to duua in the 20th century. This event is called the tragedy of Armero. Nevado del Ruiz called "sleeping lion" by local people.
10. Mount Pinatubo
Located on the island of Luzon, Philippines. The mountain erupted in 1991, more than 490 years after the last eruptive activity was seen. It is the second largest eruption in the 20th century.
The successful prediction of eruptions that displaced tens of thousands of people and save lives. But the area around the volcano destroyed by pyroclastic flows, ash and lava.
