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The Weekly Volcanic Activity Report [1] is a cooperative project between the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program and the United States Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program. Notices of volcanic activity posted on the report website are preliminary and subject to change as events are studied in more detail.
The three editions of Volcanoes of the World were in 1981, [1] 1994 [2] and 2010 [3] and are based on the GVP data and interpretations. The subtitle of the second edition was A Regional Directory, Gazetteer, and Chronology of Volcanism during the last 10,000 years. It also identified the collaboration of Russell Blong, Johnathan Dehn ...
List of volcanoes in Tanzania. 5 languages. ... [Database] Volcanoes of the World (v. 5.1.1; 17 Aug 2023). Distributed by Smithsonian Institution, compiled by Venzke ...
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 ...
It is currently administered by the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (USA), in cooperation with the IAVCEI, and the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO), a commission of IAVCEI. The number system was used in both editions of the book Volcanoes of the World in 1981 and 1994.
Below is a list of new islands created since the beginning of the 20th century by volcanism, erosion, glacial retreat, or other mechanisms. One of the most famous new volcanic islands is the small island of Surtsey, located in the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland. It first emerged from the ocean surface in 1963.
By 2010, the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution had cataloged the assignment of a VEI for 7,742 volcanic eruptions that occurred during the Holocene (the last 11,700 years) which account for about 75% of the total known eruptions during the Holocene. Of these 7,742 eruptions, about 49% have a VEI of 2 or lower, and 90% have ...
The country's National Geology and Mining Service lists 90 active volcanoes. [2] The volcanoes of the Andes originate from the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate, while the volcanoes of Chile's Pacific islands formed from magma coming from three distinct hotspots, Easter, Juan Fernández and San Felix hotspots. The ...