The World’s Most Explosive Volcanoes; A Top 10 List

A number of volcanoes are quite famous for their large explosive eruptions. Yet, many of these volcanoes such as Krakatau, Mount Tambora, or the Yellowstone supervolcano are not the consistently explosive in recent times. This video will disuss the 10 volcanoes which since the end of the last ice age have produced the most eruptions similar in size or larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. Volcanoes on this list include the Taupo supervolcano, Vesuvius, and Mount Saint Helens. If you would like to support this channel, consider becoming a patron at Another way to support this channel is to make an order via our gemstone and geology related etsy store at . This channel’s merch store is also on etsy at . Video Thumbnail Photo Credit: Derivative of an image (resized, cropped, color enhanced, & other changes) from (gsfc, User: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Flickr, CC BY