Rabaul erupted around 683 CE 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 took place around 683 CE.
Before and after
- from 680 CE to 692 CESecond Fitna
- from 7 November 680 CE to 16 September 681 CEThird Council of Constantinople
- from 681 CE to 1018First Bulgarian Empire
- c. 683 CESrivijaya emerges as a maritime empire in Sumatra
- c. 683 CEEruption of Rabaul
- 6 August 686 CEBattle of Khazir
- 691 CEConstruction of Dome of the Rock
- October 691 CEBattle of Maskin
- from 697 CE to 1797Republic of Venice
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- c. 847 CEEruption of Churchill
- c. 930 CEEruption of Ceboruco
- c. 1280Eruption of Quilotoa
- c. 1477Eruption of Bardarbunga
The era
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