2007-02-18 03:10:47 · 6 answers · asked by farhana 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
In terms of deadliest, then you'd have to go with the Tambora, Indonesia eruption. It's estimated that 92000 people died from effects stemming from it. The more famous eruption of Krakatau later on killed a third as many people.
2007-02-18 03:25:10 · answer #1 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tambora is considered largest in historic times, but that wasn't the question. Even Tambora wasn't a super volcano, like Yellowstone or Taupo in my own country New Zealand.
Also, there were enormous eruptions that produced the Deccan Traps in India around the time of the Dinosaur extinctions. These eruptions would have been hundreds of times the power of Tambora.
2007-02-18 14:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that depends on how you are defining deadliest. If you mean in loss of HUMAN (not prehistoric or animal) life.
In general, Tambora in Indonesia is seen that way, but those deaths were from starvation.
If you want other forms of death, the chart below will help:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vw_hyperexchange/deadly_volcs.html
2007-02-18 11:17:44 · answer #3 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
happened in Tambora, Indonesia killed 92,000 people
2007-02-18 11:25:01 · answer #4 · answered by ♥♥live&laugh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pompeii in italy
2007-02-18 11:44:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
tambora, killed nearly 100,000
2007-02-21 22:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by 22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋