2014 Event The 16,480-foot Tungurahua volcano erupts twice; the volcano is located about 90 miles south of Quito in Ecuador 2014 Event Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung erupts on Sumatra Island, shooting toxic clouds of ash into the air; 15 people die, and the search continues for more victims and survivors 2014 Event Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupts again, with pyroclastic flows streaming down the volcanic slope; the activity has caused the evacuation of 22,000 people from the danger zone around Sinabung 2013 Event New Zealand's most active volcano - the White Islands' Whakaari, erupts, sending ash 4 kilometres into the air 2013 Event Southern Japan's Mount Mount Sakurajima erupts for the 500th time, covering the city of Kagoshima in ash 2012 Event For the second time in four months, New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volano erupts; the volcano is located on the country's North Island 2012 Event After a century of silence, Mount Tongariro in New Zealand erupts, spreading volcanic ash across the country's central North Island and affecting airports 2011 Event The most active volcano in Iceland, Grimsvotn, erupts and triggers 50 small earthquakes 2010 Event The Mount Bulusan volcano in the Philippines erupts again, spreading an ash plume up to 700 meters above the volcano's crater 2010 Event Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people 2006 Event Alaska's Augustine volcano erupts 1995 Event Mount Ruapehu Volcano, North Island, New Zealand erupts 1994 Event Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14 1991 Event Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines 1991 Event Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts 1991 Event Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts 1991 Event Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history 1991 Event Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years 1986 Event Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal 1985 Event Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed 1985 Event Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000 1978 Event 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York 1975 Event Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii 1973 Event Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs 1971 Event Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy 1967 Event Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade 1962 Event Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die 1961 Event A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha 1943 Event New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico) 1919 Event Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550 1919 Event Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages 1902 Event Mount Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000 1888 Event Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years 1883 Event Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 1872 Event Volcano Vesuvius erupts 1843 Event Mount Rainier in Washington State erupts 1842 Event Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts 1834 Event Mount Vesuvius erupts 1814 Event Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 1793 Event Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 1783 Event Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 1693 Event Mount Etna erupts, Sicily 1669 Event Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 1669 Event Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1631 Event Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000 79 Event Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
