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The Taupo volcano last erupted over 1,800 years ago, and is today filled by New Zealand's largest lake.
It is simply called the Taupo Volcano.
Taupo's last eruption was around AD 200 +/-. The ice core dating from Iceland give a different date to the historic records from Rome and China (red skies). It has erupted about 28 times in the last 27 000 years.
The Taupo volcano has produced two cataclysmic eruptions. The first, a VEI 8 super eruption ocurred 26,500 years ago. The second, a VEI 7 ocurred around 180 AD. The volcano has produced at least 26 smaller eruptions as well.
The eruption of Taupo is one of the largest in the last 5000 years.
The eruption of Taupo is one of the largest in the last 5000 years.
Mount Ruapehu is part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Ruapehu first erupted about 250 000 years ago, and erupts about every 50 years on a rough average.Different volcanoes have a different chemical composition and there are clever techniques to measure the date of each eruption. These are radio-isotope dating techniques.
It's something called the water cycle you ding dongs!
The state of volcanic hazard in New Zealand is shown, on a scale of 1 - 5, in the website Geonet.org.nz. The biggest volcanic hazard (averaged over a few thousand years) is Taupo. And more broadly, the Taupo Volcanic Zone in general. Taupo has erupted about 27 times in the last 26 000 years, and the last significant eruption was about AD120. As a matter of record, the H2S gas at the Rotorua geothermal area has killed a few folk in the last decade, and unwary footsteps in the geyser field have taken another few.
Taupo is a town by Lake Taupo near the centre of the North Island of New Zealand.
When was the last time tajumulco erupted?
the last year it erupted was 2009