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Eyjafjallajökull consists of a volcano completely covered by an ice cap. The retreating ice cap covered an area of 66 km 2 (25 sq mi) in 2019, [ 1 ] but was previously more than 80 square kilometres (30 square miles), [ 9 ] with many outlet glaciers. The main outlet glaciers are to the north: Gígjökull, flowing into Lónið, and ...
An eruption column or eruption plume is a cloud of super-heated ash and tephra suspended in gases emitted during an explosive volcanic eruption. The volcanic materials form a vertical column or plume that may rise many kilometers into the air above the vent of the volcano. In the most explosive eruptions, the eruption column may rise over 40 km ...
July 20, 2019: volcanic ash was reported in Xochimilco after a morning eruption. [42] October 2019: the volcano erupted multiple times in one night. [43] November 2019: an eruption forced a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City to turn back. [44] January 9, 2020: Popocatépetl expelled lava and rock and sent ash clouds to 6.1 km (20,000 ft ...
Mount Shasta (/ ˈʃæstə / SHASS-tə; Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; [5] Karuk: Úytaahkoo) [6] is a potentially active [7] volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state.
Mount Mazama (Tum-sum-ne in the Native American language Klamath [5]) is a complex volcano in the western U.S. state of Oregon, in a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and Cascade Range. The volcano is in Klamath County, in the southern Cascades, 60 miles (97 km) north of the Oregon– California border. Its collapse, due to the eruption of ...
Klyuchy is located about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the volcano and Ust-Kamchatsk 50 kilometers (30 miles) away. The 4,650-meter (15,255-foot) stratovolcano has been active in recent years and ...
Hike via south slope of volcano (closest area near eruption site) Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, [1] in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It lies 52 miles (83 km) northeast ...
The volcano on the remote island of Halmahera erupted at 9.12 a.m. (0012 GMT) for about five minutes, projecting ash into the sky as high as 5 km (3.1 miles), officials said. Indonesia's Mt Ibu ...