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Ruby Seamount is an active volcanic seamount in the Northern Mariana Islands region of the Pacific Ocean about 50 km (31 mi) north-west of Saipan. [ 5 ] [ 1 ] It is in a region where the Pacific Plate is subducting under the Philippine Sea Plate producing arc volcanism .
Taal Volcano, an island volcano in the Philippines; ... Vulcano Island, a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea; Other uses. Nicktoons: ...
[1] [2] The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop the Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc that stretches south to the Marianas. They have an area of 32.55 square kilometres (12.57 sq mi), and a population of 380. The island of Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands lies about 1,240 kilometres (670 nmi; 771 mi) southeast of Miyazaki. [3]
North Iwo Jima (Japanese: 北硫黄島, Kita Iwōjima, "North Sulfur Island"), [1] now officially North or Kita Iōtō (written with the same characters) and previously known as Santo [2] or San Alessandro, [3] Hooge Meeuwen Island (Dutch: t'Hooge Meuwen Eylandt, "High Seagull Island"), [4] and North Sulfur Island, is the northernmost member of Japan's Volcano Islands.
1914 : An island with a height of 300 m (980 ft) and a circumference of 11.8 km (7.3 mi) is formed by a undersea eruption in January. [7] By the end of the year, it begins to collapse. 1916 : The island is collapses. 1986 : An island is formed by a undersea eruption in January, quickly submerging by the end of March. [7]
The Nikkō caldera is a volcanic complex consisting of a caldera and 2 other cones that are the active parts of the volcano which last had an activity in 1979. [2] It is 155 km (96 mi) south-southeast of Iwo Jima and 945 km (587 mi) north-northwest of Saipan .
Tofua caldera. Tofua is a volcanic island in Tonga.Located in the Haʻapai island group, it is a steep-sided composite cone with a summit caldera.It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc, which extends from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji, and is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Indo-Australian Plate. [2]
Bogoslof Island or Agasagook Island (Aleut: Aĝasaaĝux̂ [4]) is the summit of a submarine stratovolcano at the south edge of the Bering Sea, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Islands chain. It has a land area of 319.3 acres (1.292 km 2) and is uninhabited. It is 1,040 meters (3,410 ft) long and 1,512 m (4,961 ft ...