Media Contributed by Rick
Lake Taupo Oruanui eruption A large eruption column during the Oruanui eruption as it may have appeared from space. The eruption occurred over a period spanning months/years, the image here depicts a new eruption column during the early phase of the overall event.
Lake Taupo NASA satellite photo
Mount Pinatubo In April 1991, a few months before eruption
Pinatubo 1991 Eruption Mount Pinatubo at daybreak on June 15, 1991, a few minutes after the start of the climactic eruption
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin (1789 - 1854)
Area affected by the Vesuvius eruption By MapMaster - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2912359
The Last Day of Pompeii Painting by Karl Brullov, 1830–1833
Ruins of Pompeii seen from the above with a drone, with the Vesuvius in the background
Mount Pinatubo 1991 Eruption The summit caldera as seen on Aug. 1, 1991
Infrared image of Mount Tambora Taken from the space shuttle Endeavour at 0:54 GMT on 13 May 1992. The most striking geologic feature in this photograph is the large circular Tambora Volcano caldera: diameter is slightly more than 3 miles (5 kilometers)
