Volcanic Eruptions of the 1700s

• Tenerife, May 5, 1706VEI 2 · tsunami
• Santorini, May 1707VEI 3 · tsunami
• Fujisan, December 16, 1707VEI 4 · Deaths: few · 75 houses destroyed
• Awu, December 11, 1711VEI 3 · 3,000 deaths
• Bardarbunga, January 15, 1712VEI 2
• Vesuvius, June 30, 1714tsunami
• Kelud, July 20, 1716VEI 2 · Deaths: few
• Taal, September 24, 1716VEI 4 · Deaths: few · tsunami
• Bardarbunga, October 5, 1716VEI 2
• Kirishimayama, November 9, 1716VEI 3 · 1 death
• Kirishimayama, February 7, 1717VEI 3 · 1 death
• Bardarbunga, August 4, 1717VEI 3
• Fuego, August 27, 1717VEI 4 · Deaths: some · 3,000 houses destroyed · tsunami
• Pico, February 1, 1718VEI 2 · 2 deaths
• Katla, May 11, 1721VEI 5
• Asamayama, June 22, 1721VEI 1 · 15 deaths
• Bardarbunga, February 1, 1726VEI 1
• Oraefajokull, August 3, 1727VEI 4 · 3 deaths
• Bardarbunga, February 1, 1729VEI 1
• Krafla, June 30, 1729VEI 2
• Raung, 1730VEI 3 · Deaths: many
• Tseax River Cone, 1730Deaths: few
• Lanzarote, September 1, 1730VEI 2 · Deaths: few
• Vesuvius, May 20, 1737VEI 3 · 2 deaths
• Oshima-Oshima, August 23, 1741VEI 4 · 2,000 deaths · 871 houses destroyed · tsunami
• Cotopaxi, June 15, 1742VEI 3 · Deaths: many
• Cotopaxi, December 9, 1742VEI 3 · Deaths: many
• Taal, August 11, 1749VEI 3 · Deaths: few · tsunami
• Grimsvotn, October 15, 1753VEI 2
• Taal, November 28, 1754VEI 4 · 12 deaths · tsunami
• Katla, October 17, 1755VEI 4 · 2 deaths
• Sao Jorge, July 9, 1757VEI 0 · 1,053 deaths
• Kie Besi, 1760VEI 4 · 2,000 deaths
• Klyuchevskoy, 1762VEI 2 · Deaths: few
• Hekla, April 5, 1766VEI 4
• Mayon, July 20, 1766VEI 3 · 49 deaths
• Cotopaxi, April 4, 1768VEI 4 · Deaths: many
• Dempo, 1770tsunami
• Gamalama, May 9, 1772VEI 3 · 35 deaths · tsunami
• Papandayan, August 12, 1772VEI 3 · 2,957 deaths
• Gamalama, February 2, 1773VEI 2 · Deaths: some
• Gamalama, 1775VEI 3 · 1,300 deaths
• Lokon-Empung, 1775VEI 3 · Deaths: few
• Raikoke, 1778VEI 4 · 15 deaths
• Vesuvius, August 8, 1779VEI 3 · Deaths: few
• Aira, November 8, 1779VEI 4 · 153 deaths
• Aira, February 9, 1780VEI 4 · Deaths: many
• Aogashima, July 27, 1780VEI 3 · 7 deaths
• Aira, September 9, 1780VEI 4 · tsunami
• Aira, October 31, 1780tsunami
• Aira, April 11, 1781VEI 4 · 38 deaths · tsunami
• Aogashima, April 10, 1783VEI 3 · 7 deaths · 61 houses destroyed
• Asamayama, August 5, 1783VEI 4 · 1,491 deaths
• Hualalai, 1784VEI 0 · Deaths: few
• Grimsvotn, April 1784VEI 4 · 9,350 deaths
• Coropuna, July 1784Peru
• Aogashima, April 18, 1785VEI 3 · 135 deaths
• Dieng Volcanic Complex, 1786VEI 2 · 38 deaths
• Izu-Oshima, 1789VEI 2 · Deaths: few
• Kilauea, November 1790VEI 4 · 5,405 deaths
• Unzendake, May 21, 1792VEI 2 · 15,000 deaths · 6,200 houses destroyed · tsunami
• Vesuvius, June 15, 1794VEI 3 · 400 deaths
• Aira, 1797VEI 2 · tsunami

• 4300s BC 2
• 4000s BC 2
• 3500s BC 2
• 2400s BC 1
• 2000s BC 1
• 1900s BC 1
• 1800s BC 2
• 1700s BC 1
• 1600s BC 2
• 1500s BC 1
• 1400s BC 1
• 1300s BC 1
• 1000s BC 2
• 400s BC 1
• 200s BC 1
• 100s BC 3
• 99 to 1 BC 1
• Years 1 to 99 4
• 200s 3
• 300s 2
• 400s 2
• 500s 2
• 600s 3
• 700s 4
• 800s 1
• 900s 5
• 1000s 1
• 1100s 6
• 1200s 4
• 1300s 15
• 1400s 5
• 1500s 30
• 1600s 45
• 1700s 63
• 1800s 150
• 1900s 378
• 2000s 152

Volcanoes and significant eruptions from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s.