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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 ...
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]
Map of Earth's plate boundaries and active volcanoes More detailed map showing volcanoes active in ... List of volcanoes in the United States; Venezuela has no ...
Twelve volcanoes in the arc are over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in elevation, and the two highest, Mount Rainier and Mount Shasta, exceed 14,000 feet (4,300 m). By volume, the two largest Cascade volcanoes are the broad shields of Medicine Lake Volcano and Newberry Volcano, which are about 145 and 108 cubic miles (600 and 450 km 3) respectively.
See also Category:Volcanoes of South America, Category:Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean, Category:Volcanoes of the Pacific Ocean Wikimedia Commons has media related to Volcanoes in North America . Subcategories
Category: Volcanoes of the United States by state. 12 languages. ... Volcanoes of Oregon (6 C, 113 P) T. Volcanoes of Texas (1 C, 11 P) U. Volcanoes of Utah (1 C, 9 P) V.
Map of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt centers. The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the northern extension of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in the United States and contains the most explosive young volcanoes in Canada. Like the rest of the arc, it has its origins in the Cascadia subduction zone.