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Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption
Most of the volcanoes of the United States are located along the West Coast, at the subduction of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.During the 20th century there were only two eruptions in the contiguous United States; Lassen in 1915, and Mount St. Helens in 1980, with Mount Hood in 1907 and Medicine Lake Volcano's Glass Mountain in 1910 being minor unvalidated third and fourth ...
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.
The volcanoes of the Cascade Arc share some general characteristics, but each has its own unique geological traits and history. Lassen Peak in California, which last erupted in 1917, is the southernmost historically active volcano in the arc, while the Mount Meager massif in British Columbia, which erupted about 2,350 years ago, is generally ...
Mainly Southern Africa and Antarctica. Also South America, India, Australia and New Zealand 2.5: Formed as Gondwana broke up [59] Paraná and Etendeka traps: 133 Brazil/Angola and Namibia: 2.3: Linked to the Tristan hotspot [60] [61] Central Atlantic magmatic province: 200 Laurasia continents 2: Believed to be the cause of the Triassic ...
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Hike via south slope of volcano (closest area near eruption site) Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the local Cowlitz people , and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat ) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington , [ 1 ] in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Mount Rainier [a] (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / ray-NEER), also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. The mountain is located in Mount Rainier National Park about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [9]