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World map of active volcanoes and plate boundaries Kīlauea's lava entering the sea Lava flows at Holuhraun, Iceland, September 2014. An active volcano is a volcano that has erupted during the Holocene (the current geologic epoch that began approximately 11,700 years ago), is currently erupting, or has the potential to erupt in the future. [1]
Volcanoes are informally described as erupting, active, dormant, or extinct, but the definitions of these terms are not entirely uniform among volcanologists. The level of activity of most volcanoes falls upon a graduated spectrum, with much overlap between categories, and does not always fit neatly into only one of these three separate categories.
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People watch and record images of lava from the Mauna Loa volcano Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) After Mauna Loa, also known as the world's largest active ...
Today, about 500 million people live on or close to volcanoes, and while these geological wonders can be a hot spot for tourists they can pose many hazards to surrounding communities when they erupt.
In the continental U.S., the most recent cataclysmic eruption of a volcano was Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. “Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!” radioed U.S. Geological Survey scientist ...
Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon. [1]
Mount Musuan's lack of any visible crater has led to some local skepticism of it being an active volcano. [6] Still, the imagery evoked by its name variant 'Mount Calayo' (Fire Mountain) and the stories told by Indigenous Bukidnon people keep people wary of the relatively small mountain which doesn't look like a volcano at all.