The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption in Every Country

Pelee, Santorini, Tambora, and Vesuvius. These 3 volcanoes share a unique quality of producing the deadliest volcanic eruptions in each of their respective countries. Today's video will elaborate on this by discussing what precisely is the volcano that produced the deadliest eruption in every single nation which has produced a fatal volcanic eruption. Nations included in this list are Canada, Azerbaijan, New Zealand, and 35 other countries! This video was all made via the analysis and opinion of a geologist.

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This thumbnail image shows the aftermath of the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens. That eruption represented the second deadliest to have occurred within the United States.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] Brown, S.K., Jenkins, S.F., Sparks, R.S.J. et al. Volcanic fatalities database: analysis of volcanic threat with distance and victim classification. J Appl. Volcanol. 6, 15 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-017-00..., CC BY 4.0. The number of fatalities from the deadliest volcanic eruption in Italy, El Salvador, Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Greece, North Korea, Philippines, and Saudi Arabia are NOT sourced from this database/source.
[2] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission
[3] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by    / geologyhub   on Oct 5th, 2022.
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0:00 Volcanoes
0:19 Disasters, A Learning Oppurtunity
0:45 Nations Not on this List
1:10 Deadly Volcanic Eruptions
1:59 Eruptions w/ ≥10 Fatalities
3:37 Eruptions w/ ≥100 Fatalities
4:49 Eruptions w/ ≥1,000 Fatalities
7:07 Eruptions w/ ≥10,000 Fatalities
8:10 Ilopango
8:28 Overall Statistics