Top Ten Most Devastating Volcanoes
Greatest Volcanoes in terms of Chaos produced or can produce.It’s biggest eruption happened 2.1 million years ago, and an eruption like that again would obliterate the U.S. and cover the entire world with ash for a decade, causing a deep freeze.
It was reported this that up to 5 Billion people, out of all 7 1/2 billion, would die.
Yellowstone is powerful but it can't wipe out the world. It's last eruption only covered the whole United States.
Yellowstone is devastating, if it erupted any time sooner, America would be thrown into chaos.
Technically it's not Mount Krakatoa it's just Krakatoa. Though it did create the loudest sound ever recorded.
Thankfuly the island surrounding Krakatoa, wasn’t inhabited, but it still sadly managed to kill thousands of people when it erupted.After Krakatoa’s eruption with its sound being reported to be over 300 desables! The eruption also sent Tsunamis, which killed at least 36,417 people... Yikes!
Since the famous eruption of AD79 that destroyed Pompeii, Herculaneum & Stabiae, Vesuvius has erupted at least 22 times - most recently in 1944 during world war 2. However, it poses a greater threat now more than ever, as the area around the volcano is now home to over 3 million people - some of which even live on the slopes of the volcano itself.
According to geologists & the Italian government, Vesuvius will explode again; they just don't know when.
Erupted, 79 AD.
The volcano whipped out the entire village of Pompeii, and the surrounding Herculaneum. Coving them both in ash, In just a matter of hours. And bodies of the civilians are still being found today! Scary sad and fascinating all at the same time.
This should REALLY be number one! It killed more people than all the others on this list COMBINED and it almost put humanity toward extinction.
No natural disaster recorded by humans has ever been this deadly.
Mt. Tambora's eruption in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer." No other volcanic eruption has been this powerful.
Learning about it in school
28 million years ago, according to scientific work, it made among the most explosive eruptions in history.
It released 2.8 teratons of energy, which was 102 million times more violent than the most powerful nuke ever dropped (50 megatons).
If it erupted today, we’d all go extinct.
It blew down trees surrounding the volcano.
The sound blew out windows ~200 miles away, as far as Seattle and Tacoma.
Huge chunks fell off and landslides occurred.
It remained a wasteland more desolate than the Moon.
It killed 57 people, making it the deadliest volcanic eruption in modern U.S. history.
No eruption if it has matched afterwards.