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United States: 1980 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: 56 Mount Etna: 2 Italy: 1843 [6] 56 La Soufrière: 4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 1812 [37] 50 Mount Usu: 4 Japan: 1822 [38] 43 Mount Unzen: 1 Japan: 1991 [39] 40 Dieng Volcanic Complex: 2 Indonesia: 1928 [30] 39 Taal: 4 Philippines: 2020 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions: 38 Dieng ...
The United States Geological Survey National Volcanic Threat Assessment is a report containing a ranked list of active volcanoes in the United States posing hazardous risks to the American population. [1] The report was published by the United States Geological Survey in 2005 [2] and revised in 2018. [3]
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
The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years.
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 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] It has often been considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
Many think of Mt. St. Helens as one of the larger volcano eruptions, but they can get much bigger. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call ...
CNN briefly mentioned Tacoma in its June article, “Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano that troubles scientists most.” One expert told that outlet the volcano “keeps [her] up at night.”