Date

Location

1,000's Dead

Notes

4377 B.C.

major, Nazama, South Oregon

3199 B.C.

major, N. hemisphere

1628 B.C.

major, N. hemisphere

?1500 B.C.

Santorini, Greece

?

1153 B.C.

major, N. hemisphere

79

Mt. Vesuvius, Italy

18

260

Ilpango volcano, El Salvador

300 A.D.

Volcano Xitli in Mexico

541 A.D.

major, N. hemisphere

1169

Mt. Etna, Sicily

15

1532-33

Cotopaxi C. Ecuador

1631

Mt. Vesuvius

4

1663

Mt. Fugendake Japan

3/25/1669

Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy

20

1698

Cotopaxi C. Ecuador destroyed Tacunga

1744

Cotopaxi C. Ecuador

heard 500 mi away

1766

Hekla in Iceland

1772

Mt. Papandayan, Java

3

6-8/1783

Mt. Skaptor, Iceland

10

1792

Mt. Unzen-Dake (Mt. Fugendake), Japan

10.4 or 15K

4/5/1815

Tambora, Java, Indonesia

11.5

1837

Zefat, Galilee

8/27/1883

Krakatoa (Tsunami)

35.5

12 mi^2 gone noise heard 3000 mi away

4/18/1902

Santa Maria, Guatemala

3.5

5/18/1902

Mt. Pelee, Martinique

30

1911

Mt. Taal, Philippines

1.4

1919

Mt. Kelud, Java, Indonesia

5.1

1930

Indonesia

1.4

1/8-21/1951

Mt. Lamington, New Guinea

3.0

1963

Indonesia

1.2

5/1970

Hekla in Iceland

10/1976

Volcan, de Fuego, Guatemala

11/1963-1965

Surtsey, Iceland

0

4/26/1966

Mt. Kelud, Java, Indonesia

1

5/18/1980

major, Mt. St. Helens

0.06

8/1980

Hekla in Iceland

1982

Yemen

3

500

1982

Mexico

1.7

11/13/1985

Armero, Colombia

23

Minor eruption and mud slide

8/24/1986

NW Cameroon

1.7

6/3/1991

Mt. Fugendake, Japan

0.041

Total

202.7