Famous Volvcanic Eruptions

  • Mount Papandayan, Indonesia

    Mount Papandayan, Indonesia
    Located in West Java, Indonesia. More than 3 000 people dead and forty villages destroyed.
  • Mount Unzen: Kyushu, Japan

    Mount Unzen: Kyushu, Japan
    Deathtoll estimated is 14,500 people. It led to a destructive landslide and a tsunami. The magnitude of the eruption was 6.2.
  • Tambora: Sumbawa, Indonesia

    Tambora: Sumbawa, Indonesia
    Tambora produced the larget known earthquake in the past 10,000 years. It erupted more than 50 cubic kilometres and took around 92,000 lives.click here for a link
  • Taal in Luzon, Phillipines

    Taal in Luzon, Phillipines
    It is the second most active volcano in the Philipines and has had 33 historical eruptions. Taal is located 50 km south off Manilla. The total of recorded shocks that day was 26.
  • Kelut, Indonesia

    Kelut, Indonesia
    Over 1 500 peplee died. During the eruption, 38 cubic metres was expelled from the crater lake.
  • Hibok Hibok, Phillipines

    Hibok Hibok, Phillipines
    Located on Camiguin Island, Phillipines. In December 4 1851 the volcanoe erupetd with pyroglastic flows going North East killing around 500 people.