Witori erupted around 710 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 710 CE.
Before and after
- 19 May 701 CEBirth of Li Bai
- 706 CEConstruction of Umayyad Mosque
- 710 CEConstruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque
- from 710 CE to 794 CENara period
- c. 710 CEEruption of Witori
- from 711 CE to 1492Al-Andalus
- from 711 CE to 726 CEUmayyad conquest of Hispania
- 19 July 711 CEBattle of Guadalete
- 712 CEBirth of Du Fu
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- from 1303 to 1850Little Ice Age
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- c. 1477Eruption of Bardarbunga
The era
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