Active volcanoes Active volcanoes The Grímsvötn ( Icelandic vatn, or "lake") are lakes in Iceland. They lie in the highlands of Iceland at the northwestern side of the Vatnajökull glacier and are covered by its ice cap. Under them, there is the big magma chamber of a powerful volcano. The location of the lakes is , at an elevation of 1725 m (5659 ft). ...more on Wikipedia about "Grímsvötn"
:(Hayes Volcano is not to be confused with Mount Hayes, which is a nonvolcanic peak further to the north in the Alaska Range.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Hayes Volcano"
Hekla is a volcano located in the south of Iceland at , with a height of 1,491 metres (4,890 ft). Hekla is Iceland's most active volcano; over 20 outbreaks having occurred in and around the volcano since 874. During the Middle Ages, Icelanders called the volcano the "Gateway to Hell." ...more on Wikipedia about "Hekla"
(Hualalai) Hualālai is the third-most historically active shield volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i in the Hawaiian Islands. Its peak is at 8,271 ft (2,521 m) above sea level. Hualālai lies more or less due west of the saddle between the much taller Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa mountains, and forms the backdrop to the town of Kailua-Kona. In fact, the town is built on the southwestern slope of this mountain, where most of the world famous Kona coffee is grown. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hualalai"
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano (not to be confused with Central Java's Gunung Merapi) is the highest point of that complex. West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an E-W-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 meters, a surface of 41 x 106 square meters. It is 200 meters deep and has a volume of 36 x 106 cubic meters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ijen"
The Iliboleng stratovolcano is located at the southeast end of Adonara Island. The top of the volcano is created by several summi craters. The first eruption was recorded in 1885. The activity is classified as moderate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iliboleng"
Irazú is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. Its name is believed to be a corruption of Iztarú, which was the name of an indigenous village on the flanks of the volcano. Irazú has erupted frequently in historical times - at least 23 times since its first well-recorded eruption in 1723. Its most famous recent eruption began in 1963 and continued until 1965. It began on the day US President John F. Kennedy began a state visit to Costa Rica, and showered the capital San José and much of the central highlands of Costa Rica with ash. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irazú"
Kaba, a twin volcano with Mount Hitam, has an elongated summit crater complex dominated by three large historically active craters trending ENE from the summit to the upper NE flank. The SW-most crater of Gunung Kaba, Kawah Lama, is the largest. Most historical eruptions have affected only the summit region of the volcano. They mostly originated from the central summit craters, although the upper-NE flank crater Kawah Vogelsang also produced explosions during the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1833 an eruption ejected water from the crater lake, forming lahars that produced damage and fatalities at Talang, Klingi, and Bliti villages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kaba (volcano)"
Karangetang (also know as Api Siau) is a volcano located on the north side of the island of Siau in Indonesia. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia having erupted forty times since 1675. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karangetang"
The volcano Katla (1450 m) has a reputation as one of the most dangerous volcanoes of Iceland. It is situated to the north of Vík í Mýrdal and to the east of the smaller glacier Eyjafjallajökull. Its peak reaches 1493 m in height and the extension of the glacier Mýrdalsjökull which lies over it reaches 595 km². ...more on Wikipedia about "Katla"
(Kilauea) Kīlauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the Island of Hawai i. In Hawaiian, the word kīlauea means "spewing" or "much spreading", in reference to the mountain's frequent outpouring of lava. It is presently the most active volcano and certainly the most visited active volcano on the planet. Kīlauea is just the most recent of a long series of volcanoes that created the Hawaiian Archipelago, as the Pacific Plate moved over a more or less fixed hotspot in the earth's mantle (see, however, Lo ihi). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kilauea"
Klyuchevskaya Sopka is the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, and the highest active volcano in the world. The volcano's steep, symmetrical cone towers are a mere 100 km (60 miles) from the Bering Sea. The volcano is part of the natural UN World Heritage Site Volcanos of Kamchatka. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klyuchevskaya Sopka"
Koryaksky is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It lies within sight of the capital of Kamchatka Oblast, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Together with neighbouring Avachinsky volcano, it has been designated a Decade Volcano, worthy of particular study in light of its history of explosive eruptions and proximity to populated areas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Koryaksky"
Krafla is a volcanic system with a diameter of about 20 km in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m. ...more on Wikipedia about "Krafla" shortopedia, there's no better way.
Krakatoa ( Indonesian name: Krakatau) is a volcano near the Indonesian island of Rakata in the Sunda Strait. It has erupted repeatedly, massively and with disastrous consequences throughout recorded history. The best known of these events occurred in late August, 1883. ...more on Wikipedia about "Krakatoa"
La Grande Soufrière, or simply La Soufrière ( French: " sulphur outlet"), is an active stratovolcano located on the French island of Basse-Terre, in Guadeloupe. It is the tallest mountain in the Lesser Antilles, and rises 4,813 ft ( 1,467 m) high. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Grande Soufrière"
Langila is one of the most active volcanoes of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Langila"
Lo ihi is a seamount and undersea volcano in the Hawaiian archipelago, located at 18.92°N, 155.27°W—roughly 30 km (19 mi) south of the southeast coast of the Island of Hawai i. It is one of three very active volcanoes (the other two are Mauna Loa and Kīlauea) thought to presently sit over the Hawaiian hotspot. The greatest distance between the summits of these volcanoes is about 80 km (50 mi), approximately the diameter of the hot spot. However, Lo ihi has yet to build to the surface of the ocean, although it is now over 3000 m (10,000 ft) high (taller than Mount St. Helens). The top of Lo ihi lies 969 m (3,178 ft) below the surface. If the rate of upward building is about the same as nearby Kīlauea, Lo ihi should appear at the surface in several tens of thousands of years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Loihi Seamount"
Maipo is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maipo (volcano)"
The Makushin Volcano (alternatively Mount Makushin) is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula. Makushin is a Russian name, probably derived from the word "makushka", meaning "the crown (of the head)" or "top," and applied to this feature because it is the highest point on Unalaska Island. This volcano was called "Ognedyshushchaya Gora" meaning "burning mountain" by Sarichev on a 1792 map. ...more on Wikipedia about "Makushin Volcano"
Manam is an inhabited island located in the Bismarck Sea across the Stephan Strait from the northeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. Only 10 kilometers wide, the island was created from the activity of the Manam Volcano, one of the country’s most active. Prior to the most recent activity, the island was reached by boat from the mainland from nearby Bogia, and visitors were greeted by enthusiastic residents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manam" http://www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest.
Masaya is a large basaltic volcanic caldera located 20 km south of Managua, Nicaragua, Central America and is Nicaragua's first and largest National Park. The volcanic complex is composed of a nested set of calderas and craters, the largest of which is Las Sierras shield and caldera. Within this caldera lies Masaya Volcano sensu stricto, a shallow shield composed of basaltic lavas and tephras. This hosts Masaya caldera, formed 2500 years ago by an 8-km³ basaltic ignimbrite eruption. Inside this caldera a new basaltic complex has grown from eruptions mainly on a semi-circular set of vents that include the Masaya and Nindiri cones. The latter host the pit craters of Masaya, Santiago, Nindiri and San Pedro. Observations in the walls of the pit craters indicate that there have been several episodes of cone and pit crater formation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Masaya"
Mauna Loa is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five volcanic peaks that together form the Island of Hawaii. In Hawaiian, mauna loa means "long mountain". The summit caldera of the volcano is called Moku‘āweoweo. Mauna Loa is Earth's largest volcano and is the exposed (subareal) part of an enormous mid-ocean mountain. Indeed, it is the Earth's most massive mountain, with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³) (Kaye, 2002) and a height—measured from its base some 5,000 m (over 16,000 ft) below the ocean surface to the highest point at 4,170 m (13,680 ft) above sea level—of over 9,000 m (> 30,000 ft). Mauna Loa is about 36 m (120 ft) lower than its neighbor, Mauna Kea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mauna Loa"
Mayon Volcano is a volcano in the Philippines. It is found in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region. Its almost perfectly-shaped cone is considered by many people to be more beautiful than Mt. Fuji in Japan. A few kilometres to the south of the volcano is Legazpi City. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mayon Volcano"
Volcán Momotombo is a volcano in Nicaragua, not far from the city of León. It stands on the shores of Lago Managua. An eruption of the volcano in 1610 destroyed an early Spanish settlement nearby, the ruins of which are preserved at León Viejo (Old León). ...more on Wikipedia about "Momotombo" www.shortopedia.com never sleeps.
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