Volcano: Eyjafjallajökull
In 2010, the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull produced an immense ash cloud that grounded airline travel and shipping all over Europe, canceling over 100,000 flights. Inconvenienced travelers were stranded in airports for days and the airline industry lost over $1 billion in revenue.
Volcano: Mt. Pelee
Mt. Pelee's claim to fame, if you will, was the violent eruption of 1902 which killed nearly 30,000 people and destroyed the nearby city of St. Pierre, considered at the time to be the “Paris of the Caribbean.”
Volcano: Mount Pinatubo
Tens to hundreds of times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Mount Pinatubo’s 1991 eruption was the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
Volcano: Tambora
While relatively little known to the public today, Mount Tambora is the site of the largest volcanic eruption in recorded human history in 1815.
Volcano: Krakatoa
Krakatoa (Indonesian: Krakatau) is an island volcano in the Indonesian arc between Sumatra and Java, where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Eurasian plate.
