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Active volcanoes such as Stromboli, Mount Etna and Kīlauea do not appear on this list, but some back-arc basin volcanoes that generated calderas do appear. Some dangerous volcanoes in "populated areas" appear many times: Santorini six times, and Yellowstone hotspot 21 times.
World map of active volcanoes and plate boundaries Kīlauea's lava entering the sea Lava flows at Holuhraun, Iceland, September 2014. 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]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Map of Earth's plate boundaries and active volcanoes More detailed map showing volcanoes active in the last 1 ...
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.
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption
Name Location Elevation (m) Coordinates Last eruption Notes Askja: Iceland: 1,516 m (4,974 ft) 1961 [1]Eldfell: Iceland: 200 m (660 ft) 1973 [2]Krafla: Iceland: 800 m (2,600 ft)
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Map all coordinates using ... This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in India. Name Elevation ...