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Mount Kilimanjaro (/ ˌ k ɪ l ɪ m ə n ˈ dʒ ɑː r oʊ /) [4] is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing ...
Last eruption metres feet Coordinates; ... Mount Kilimanjaro: 5895: 19,340 ... Mount Rungwe [9] 2961: 9714 Holocene Unnamed ...
Its 1995 eruptions resulted in the abandonment of its capital city, Plymouth. Soufrière on the island Saint Vincent; Mount Pelée on the island Martinique. Its devastating eruption on 8 May 1902 resulted in the complete destruction of its capital city, Saint-Pierre, with the deaths of more than 30,000 inhabitants within it.
Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Kilimanjaro in southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania.At a height of 4,562.13 metres (14,968 ft), [1] [4] it is visible from Mount Kilimanjaro on a clear day, [5] and is the fifth-highest of the highest mountain peaks of Africa, dependent on definition.
Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Damavand. Mountain Metres Feet Location and Notes ... Colombia – 23,000 people died in 1985 eruption: El Altar: 5,319: 17,451: Ecuador ...
This is a sortable summary of 27 major eruptions in the last 2000 years with VEI ≥6, implying an average of about 1.3 per century. The count does not include the notable VEI 5 eruptions of Mount St. Helens and Mount Vesuvius. Date uncertainties, tephra volumes, and references are also not included.
Damavand from Polour Village Amol. Mount Damavand (Persian: دماوند [dæmɒːvænd] ⓘ) is a dormant stratovolcano and is the highest peak in Iran and Western Asia, the highest volcano in Asia, and the 3rd highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere (after Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Elbrus), at an elevation of 5,609 metres (18,402 ft).
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...