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  2. Sangay - Wikipedia

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    Sangay (also known as Macas, Sanagay, or Sangai) [8] is an active stratovolcano in central Ecuador.It exhibits mostly strombolian activity. Geologically, Sangay marks the southern boundary of the Northern Volcanic Zone, and its position straddling two major pieces of crust accounts for its high level of activity.

  3. Lists of volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    List of volcanoes in Eritrea; List of volcanoes in Ethiopia; List of volcanoes in Kenya; List of volcanoes in Libya; List of volcanoes in Madagascar; List of volcanoes of Mauritius; In Nigeria all the volcanoes are in the Biu Plateau; List of volcanoes in Réunion; List of volcanoes in Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe has only one volcano, Pico ...

  4. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    Augustine Volcano (Alaska) during its eruptive phase on January 24, 2006. A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

  5. List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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    The Centre of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation recommended that a 7 km (4.3 mi) radius around the volcano be evacuated. [75] Seven villages were affected by the eruption. [76] A larger eruption occurred on 7 November. [77] On 8 November, the volcano erupted several times, one bearing an ash plume with a height reaching 10 km (6.2 mi ...

  6. Timeline of volcanism on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Active volcanoes such as Stromboli, Mount Etna and Kīlauea do not appear on this list, but some back-arc basin volcanoes that generated calderas do appear. Some dangerous volcanoes in "populated areas" appear many times: Santorini six times, and Yellowstone hotspot 21 times.

  7. List of large volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    Volcano/complex Volcanic arc/belt, subregion, or hotspot Material volume (km 3) Age in Ka [1] Tephra or eruption name 6 Lolobau Island: Bismarck Volcanic Arc 50 12 caldera formation 6 Menengai: Great Rift Valley, Kenya < 25 12.3 Ruplax Tuff 6 Nevado de Toluca: Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt: 20 12.5 Upper Toluca Pumice 6 Sakurajima: Kyūshū: 11 12.8

  8. Volcanology - Wikipedia

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    Volcanoes, he said, were formed where the rays of the sun pierced the earth. The volcanoes of southern Italy attracted naturalists ever since the Renaissance led to the rediscovery of Classical descriptions of them by wtiters like Lucretius and Strabo. Vesuvius, Stromboli and Vulcano provided an opportunity to study the nature of volcanic ...

  9. Dukono - Wikipedia

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    Dukono is an active volcano located in the northern part of Halmahera island, Indonesia. It has a broad profile and is capped by compound craters. During the major eruption in 1550, a lava flow filled in the strait between Halmahera and the north flank cone of Mount Mamuya. [1] It was an eruption of scale 3 on VEI. Deaths were reported but the ...

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