Journal of Applied Volcanology

Table 2 Conditional probability of an event VEI 3 or less occurring for each of the five volcano types in the database (e.g. Asia-Pacific)

From: Probabilistic Volcanic Ash Hazard Analysis (PVAHA) I: development of the VAPAH tool for emulating multi-scale volcanic ash fall analysis

Category	Events	VEI 0	VEI 1	VEI 2^a	VEI 3
Caldera	387	0.007	0.037	0.075	0.008
Large cone	2422	0.023	0.171	0.522	0.079
Lava dome	35	0.000	0.010	0.001	0.001
Shield	168	0.001	0.008	0.042	0.005
Small cone	33	0.000	0.001	0.007	0.004

^aVEI 2 events in the GVP database are typically more common than VEI 1 and VEI 0 and this is reflected in these values

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