Moekeshiwan [Lvinaya Past] erupted around 12,400 years ago with a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6, a colossal eruption that threw tens of cubic kilometres of ash and rock into the air. Eruptions of this size inject sulphur into the stratosphere and can cool the global climate for a year or more. The VEI is a logarithmic scale: each step means roughly ten times more erupted material. It dates to about 12,400 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch.
Before and after
- from about 15,000 years ago to 1st millennium BCEJōmon period
- from about 14,000 years ago to 9th millennium BCENatufian culture
- about 13,000 years agoThe megafauna of the Americas die out
- from about 13,000 years ago to 9,750s BCEYounger Dryas
- about 12,400 years agoEruption of Moekeshiwan [Lvinaya Past]
- about 12,000 years agoHolocene extinction
- from about 12,000 years ago to 7th millennium BCEConstruction of Göbekli Tepe
- c. 9,750s BCEQuaternary extinction event
- 10th millennium BCEThe Holocene begins
More in Earth & climate
- c. 8,230 BCEEruption of Grimsvotn
- c. 6,050 BCEEruption of Menengai
- c. 4,750 BCEEruption of Hudson, Cerro
- c. 4,360 BCEEruption of Macauley
- c. 4,050 BCEEruption of Masaya
- c. 4,000 BCEEruption of Witori
The era
This moment belongs to the Human prehistory (300,000 years ago to 3,200 BCE), the human story before writing.