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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] A volcano that is not currently erupting but could erupt in the future is known as a dormant volcano. [1]
Mountain Metres Feet Location and Notes Ojos del Salado: 6,893: 22,615: Argentina/Chile – highest dormant volcano on Earth: Monte Pissis: 6,793: 22,287: Argentina Nevado Tres Cruces
Volcanoes vary greatly in their level of activity, with individual volcanic systems having an eruption recurrence ranging from several times a year to once in tens of thousands of years. [76] Volcanoes are informally described as erupting, active, dormant, or extinct, but the definitions of these terms are not entirely uniform among ...
Campi Flegrei, a large dormant volcano near Naples, has a history of eruptions, and the last one was in 1538. ... It is now the site of multiple volcanoes that have been active for 39,000 years ...
Elsewhere, the active volcano of Kilauea in Hawaii had been erupting almost constantly from its eastern rift zone since 1983. Then in April 2018, its 35-year-long eruption ended.
In 2021, the volcano in western Iceland became active again. There have been 10 eruptions since there, seven of which have occurred in 2024, according to Icelandic officials said.
Volcanoes, based on their frequency of eruption or volcanism, can be defined as either active, dormant or extinct. Active volcanoes have a recent history of volcanism and are likely to erupt again, dormant ones have not erupted in a long time but may erupt later, while extinct ones are not capable of eruption at all.
Volcanoes that are not currently active, but may be either dormant or extinct or of otherwise uncertain inactive volcanic status. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inactive volcanoes . Subcategories