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This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in India. Name Elevation Location Last eruption Type meters feet Coordinates State Barren Island: 354: 1161
High 3 He/ 4 He ratios of the main pulse of the eruption are often seen in magmas with mantle plume origin. [31] The area of long-term eruption (the hotspot), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that separated the Mascarene Plateau from India.
Based on argon-argon dating of samples from Barren Island, it is now established that the oldest subaerial lava flows of the volcano are 1.6 million years old and the volcano is located on an oceanic crust which is roughly 106 million years old. [18] All recorded eruptions lie on the low end of the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The 2017 eruption ...
The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, located just under. An undersea volcano violently erupted in the southwestern Pacific Ocean near the Kingdom of Tonga Saturday, local time ...
The transformation of St. Vincent commenced with a cracklike thunder followed by a storm of ash late last week. Within the passage of a day, the once vibrant city of Richmond Vale on the island of ...
An October 2002 eruption of Mount Etna, a volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, as seen from the International Space Station. Etna is the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes and one of the most active in the world. This eruption, one of Etna's most vigorous in years, was triggered by a series of earthquakes.
This image captured May 14, 2022, by NASA's Landsat 9, shows a plume of discolored water being emitted from the 'Sharkcano,' an underwater volcano that lies about 15 miles south of Vangunu Island.
Narcondam, India's easternmost island, is a small volcanic island located in the northern Andaman Sea. The island's peak rises to 710 m above mean sea level , and it is formed of andesite . It is part of the Andaman Islands , the main body of which lie approximately 74 km (46 mi) to the west.