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Some of the World’s most infamous Volcanoes Mt. Vesuvius Present day The ancient city of Pompei was destroyed Note the volcano In the background Artist rendition of the city The current site Viewed from the air The disappearing glaciers of Kilimanjaro The African Continent Lake Nyros The “Big Hole” In South Africa Iceland Hot Spot on a Plate Boundary Nevada del Ruiz El Chichon Popocatapeteli Paracutin Mt. St. Helens Seattle and Portland skyline Wizard Island a cinder cone In the middle of Crater Lake Oregon Mayon Mt. Fuji Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo Closing Clark Air Force base Tambora 10X larger than Krakota 100X larger than Vesuvious Lake Toba which is found today in the collapsed caldera crater of Toba volcano in Sumatra. This lake is 100km long and 30km wide and was formed after an estimated 2800 cubit kilometers of ash was thrown into the atmosphere. For comparison, Mt. St Helens in Washington State only spewed 1 cubit kilometer of ash. the largest known volcanic eruption of the last 200 years, that of Tambora on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, occurred in 1815. Enormous volumes of pyroclastic flow followed by caldera collapse created an up to 10m wall of water that devastated the Indonesian shoreline. While the eruption (and aftermath) of Tambora has been credited with the loss of more than 71,000 lives, as many as 10,000 of those are attributed to the resulting tsunami. Death from the ash cloud Most deaths are not directly from the eruption but rather The aftermath: The most deadly Lahar at Nevada del Ruiz