1452/1453 mystery eruption (original) (raw)

The 1452/1453 mystery eruption is one of two large, not definitively assigned, volcanic eruptions that took place in the 1450s with the second being the 1458 mystery eruption. At present, there is evidence that assigns both to having taken place at Kuwae, Vanuatu though there is also evidence that the latter may not have been from Kuwae. The volume of expelled matter in the two eruptions that is detected in the ice core record in both the northern and southern hemispheres is more than six times larger than that of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.