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Pinatubo makes Time eruption list

- Jose Katigbak -

WASHINGTON – Time magazine in its latest issue has rated Mount Pinatubo as one of the top 10 fiery volcanoes in recorded human history. 

The weekly news magazine’s full list follows: 

Mount Vesuvius – Best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Krakatoa – The eruption of the volcano in Indonesia in 1883 culminated with its destruction.

Mount St. Helens – Erupted in 1980 and blew down or scorched 230 square miles of forest in Washington state.       

Mount Tambora – Lowered global temperatures and was believed responsible for worldwide harvest failures when it erupted in Indonesia in 1815. Mauna Loa – Located in the island of Hawaii, it has erupted 39 times, the last eruption in 1984.          

Eyjafjallajkull – Erupted in Iceland in 2010, causing enormous disruption to air travel in Europe over six days.         

Mount Pele – In Martinique in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean, the volcano is famous for its eruption in 1902 that was reported to have killed about 30,000 people.         

Thera – An island off Greece in the southern Aegean Sea had a major catastrophic volcanic eruption estimated to have occurred in the mid second millennium BCE, according to Wikipedia.         

Nevado del Ruiz – An active stratovolcano with a history of generating deadly volcanic mudflows (lahars) from relatively small-volume eruptions. Mount Pinatubo – A total of 847 people were reported killed by the eruption in 1991.  

AEGEAN SEA

IN MARTINIQUE

LESSER ANTILLES

MAUNA LOA

MOUNT PELE

MOUNT PINATUBO

MOUNT ST. HELENS

MOUNT TAMBORA

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