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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
A series of phreatic blasts occurred from the summit and escalated until a major explosive eruption took place on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am. The eruption, which had a volcanic explosivity index of 5, was the first to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California. [2]
An eruption on 16 March injured 10 people, including a BBC News television crew, after magma exploded upon contact with snow. [97] [98] 3 Mount Ontake [99] Japan 2014 63 A phreatic eruption and pyroclastic flow occurred without warning, killing 63 people. Deadliest eruption in Japan since 1902, first volcano-related deaths in Japan since 1991. 2
Known as a super eruption for its magnitude, the event emptied out enough volcanic material to produce the 30-by-40-mile-wide caldera. The National Park Service said the eruption covered an area ...
Pages in category "Volcanic eruptions in the United States" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Native American lore contains numerous stories to explain the eruptions of Mount St. Helens and other Cascade volcanoes. The best known of these is the Bridge of the Gods story told by the Klickitat people .
(The caldera is the enormous volcanic crater left from the last time Yellowstone experienced a giant eruption, 640,000 years ago. It covers an area about 30 by 45 miles .)
American West Nostalgia: Gander at Volcanic Eruptions, Wolves & More at Yellowstone National Park ... The most recent volcanic eruption occurred in Yellowstone approximately 650,000 years ago ...