Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

The last two major eruptive phases occurred in 1902: the eruption of May 8, 1902 destroyed Saint-Pierre and took 28, 000 dead in 2 minutes ; that of August 30, 1902 caused nearly 1, 100 deaths, mostly in Morne-Red and Ajoupa-Bouillon.

The earliest recorded eruption of Hekla took place in 1104, since then there have been between twenty and thirty considerable eruptions, with the mountain sometimes remaining active for periods of six years with little pause.

Its most recent eruption took place in 1985, with prior eruptions in 1973 and 1970, all of which were flank eruptions from fissures on the northeast side of the mountain.

* On November 2, 1958, the Russian astronomer Nikolai A. Kozyrev observed an apparent half-hour " eruption " that took place on the central peak of Alphonsus crater using a 48-inch ( 122-cm ) reflector telescope equipped with a spectrometer.

Other recordings of the Thera eruption spawned Greek myths, namely the Deucalion, in which Poseidon, god of the sea, took revenge upon Zeus by inundating Attica, Argolis, Salonika, Rhodes and the coast of Lycia ( Turkey ) to Sicily.

It is suggested that an eruption of Krakatoa attributed to the year 416 by the Javanese Book of Kings actually took place at this time – there is no other evidence of such an eruption in 416.

The 1902 eruption took place within the Étang Sec crater.

Stromboli's activity is almost exclusively explosive, but lava flows do occur at times when volcanic activity is high: an effusive eruption in 2002 was its first in 17 years and again took place again in 2003 and 2007.

Adria took delivery of two new Airbus A319s with a slight delay due to the volcanic eruption in April / May 2010.

Another eruption took place at 2. 20 p. m. with material emerging from the same part of the volcano.

The last eruption took place about 80-100, 000 years ago in the vicinity of Vila Nova do Corvo.

* Francesco Serao is the first person to use the word lava in connection with extruded magma in a short account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius which took place between May 14 and June 4.

Suddenly, 37 million years ago, a great volcanic eruption took place in the Collegiate Range and covered the landscape in molten hot ash that instantly torched and consumed everything across the landscape.

The eruption actually took place at a vent about to the west of Mount Katmai ( at the Novarupta Volcano ).

She took to warning motorists that the eruption of that volcano in May 1980 signified God's warning to the Northwest and that those who did not return to the fold could expect to perish volcanically in the very near future ( 18 May, to be precise ).

A major eruption took place in June 1917, which resulted in volcanic ash being deposited about 48 kilometres away.

A similar eruption took place for several months in 1926 and between July and December 1940, resulting in the ash being deposited as far as Loliondo, which is 100 kilometres away.

The last eruption took place in 1918.

The latest eruption took place 200 AD ± 150 years, and erupted approximately worth of volcanic material.

Then, because of a volcano eruption, everything made out of ice ( e. g. the palace where the event took place ) has been destroyed-everything but Lilly.

There is a slight difference in chemistry in the two rocks that have been dated suggesting that the eruption took the form of several flows that once blanketed the high ground to the east of Horeke.

On March 27, a phreatic eruption took place, ejecting a plume of ash nearly into the air.

That Saturday, the day before the eruption took place, Johnston ascended the mountain and went on a patrol of the volcano with geologist Carolyn Driedger.

The harbour at Edinburgh is called Calshot Harbour, and is named after the place in Hampshire where the islanders temporarily stayed during the volcanic eruption.

Numerical modeling predicts that melting and eruption will take place over several million years.

It is possible that the rise and fall of the lake level caused by pre eruption fissures had freed a burial waka ( canoe ) from its resting place.

The volcano is currently dormant but not extinct with the last eruption taking place during the 19th century.

The eruption has continued intermittently into 2008, as of the end of February it was reported that the eruption appeared to be gathering strength, with a major outburst taking place on March 5.

The small photo on the left was taken from Spirit Lake before the eruption and the small photo on the right was taken after the eruption from approximately the same place.

It is believed that four eruptions, that have taken place in the last fifteen years, are the beginning of an active period, during which an eruption in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull may be expected every 2 – 7 years.

The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.

Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.

The bulk of the volcanic eruption occurred at the Western Ghats ( near Mumbai ) some 65 million years ago.

The graffiti appear on a peristyle which was being remodeled at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius by the architect Crescens.

Galileo captures a dynamic eruption at Tvashtar Catena, a chain of volcanic bowls on Jupiter's moon Io.

The eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.

Neither Vogel nor Hesse mention Krakatoa in any real detail in their other passages, and no other travelers at the time mention an eruption or evidence of one.

The Toba eruption ( the Toba event ) occurred at what is now Lake Toba about 67, 500 to 75, 500 years ago.

The Toba eruption was the latest of a series of at least three caldera-forming eruptions which have occurred at the volcano, with earlier calderas having formed around 700, 000 and 840, 000 years ago.

The eruption was large enough to have deposited an ash layer approximately thick over all of South Asia ; at one site in central India, the Toba ash layer today is up to thick and parts of Malaysia were covered with of ashfall.

A catastrophic eruption of Soufrière Hills in June 1997 closed the W. H. Bramble Airport and seaport at Plymouth, causing further economic and social dislocation.

The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, containing the library of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Julius Caesar's father-in-law, was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but has only been partially excavated.

There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuicuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an eruption of the Xitle Volcano in the first century BC.

* 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10, 000 years.

The island is the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history: the Minoan eruption ( sometimes called the Thera eruption ), which occurred some 3600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization.

The eruption occurred during the " Late Minoan IA " period at Crete and the " Late Cycladic I " period in the surrounding islands.

Though there is no well-defined minimum explosive size for a " supervolcano ", there are at least two types of volcanic eruption that have been identified as supervolcanoes: large igneous provinces and massive eruptions.

Carbon isotopes of lipids ( n-alkanes ) derived from leaf wax and lignin, and total organic carbon from two sections of lake sediments interbedded with the in eastern North America have shown carbon isotope excursions similar to those found in the mostly marine St. Audrie ’ s Bay section, Somerset, England ; the correlation suggests that the end-Triassic extinction event began at the same time in marine and terrestrial environments, slightly before the oldest basalts in eastern North America but simultaneous with the eruption of the oldest flows in Morocco ( Also suggested by Deenen et al., 2010 ), with both a critical greenhouse and a marine biocalcification crisis.

In 1961, a volcanic eruption forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to wooden huts in the disused Pendell Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England, before moving to a more permanent site at a former Royal Air Force station in Calshot near Southampton, England, living mainly in a road called Tristan Close.

Volcanic ash | Ash plumes reached a height of 19 km during the climactic eruption at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines in 1991.

Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8: 32 am PDT, the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States.

This 150-year period next saw the eruption of less silica-rich lava in the form of andesitic ash that formed at least eight alternating light-and dark-colored layers.