Volcanic Eruptions of the 3500s BC
Every significant eruption NOAA records from 3599 BC to 3500 BC.
The 3500s BC on the map
Colored by explosivity; the larger the dot, the more people it killed.
- VEI 0
- VEI 2
- VEI 3
- VEI 4
- VEI 5
- VEI 6
- VEI 7+
- VEI not recorded
Every eruption
Oldest first.
Other centuries
- 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
Sources
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.