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Mt. Isarog, Philippines

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Fumarolic Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 1966 m 6,450 feet Latitude: 13.658°N 13°39’30″N Longitude: 123.38°E 123°23’0″E

Mount Isarog is a potentially active stratovolcano located in the province of Camarines Sur, Island of Luzon, Philippines

The broad isthmus between Lagonoy Gulf and San Miguel Bay in SE Luzon is occupied by the isolated Mount Isarog . . . → Read More: Mt. Isarog, Philippines

Pacaya, Guatemala

Volcano Type: Complex volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2010 (continuing) Summit Elevation: 2552 m 8,373 feet Latitude: 14.381°N 14°22’51″N Longitude: 90.601°W 90°36’4″W

Eruptions from Pacaya, one of Guatemala’s most active volcanoes, are frequently visible from Guatemala City, the nation’s capital. Pacaya is a complex basaltic volcano constructed just outside the . . . → Read More: Pacaya, Guatemala

Marion Island, South Africa

Volcano Type: Shield volcanoes Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2004 Summit Elevation: 1230 m 4,035 feet Latitude: 46.90°S 46°54’0″S Longitude: 37.75°E 37°45’0″E

Marion Island, South Africa’s only historically active volcano, lies at the SW end of a submarine plateau immediately south of the SW Indian Ocean Ridge, opposite Prince Edward Island. The low profile of 24-km-wide dominantly basaltic . . . → Read More: Marion Island, South Africa

Mount Kazbek, Georgia

Kazbek

Volcano Type: Stratovolcanoes Volcano Status: Tephrochronology Last Known Eruption: About 750 B.C. Summit Elevation: 5050 m 16,568 feet Latitude: 42.70°N 42°42’0″N Longitude: 44.50°E 44°30’0″E

Mount Kazbek, is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus located on the border of Kazbegi District of Georgia and North Ossetia. It is the third highest mountain in Georgia (after Mount . . . → Read More: Mount Kazbek, Georgia

Mt. Natib, Philippines

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 1253 m 4,111 feet Latitude: 14.72°N 14°43’0″N Longitude: 120.40°E 120°24’0″E

The massive stratovolcano of Mount Natib, at the northern end of the Bataan Peninsula, is truncated by a 6 x 7 km caldera. The latest dated eruptive products are 69,000 . . . → Read More: Mt. Natib, Philippines

Mt. Didicas, Philippines

Volcano Type: Compound volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1978 Summit Elevation: 228 m 748 feet Latitude: 19.077°N 19°4’36″N Longitude: 122.202°E 122°12’6″E

Didicas volcano, 22 km NE of Camiguin Island, was a submarine volcano prior to 1952, when a permanent island was formed. Didicas now consists of a small, 244-m-high andesitic lava dome about 1.4 km in longest . . . → Read More: Mt. Didicas, Philippines

Atakor Volcanic Field, Algeria

Volcano Type: Scoria cones Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 2918 m 9,573 feet Latitude: 23.33°N * 23°20’0″N Longitude: 5.83°E 5°50’0″E

The massive Atakor volcanic field is the largest in the Hoggar (or Ahaggar) volcanic province of southern Algeria and covers an area of 2150 sq km. Basaltic (mostly basanitic) scoria cones and lava flows of Pleistocene-Holocene . . . → Read More: Atakor Volcanic Field, Algeria

Nevis Peak, St. Kitts and Nevis

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 985 m 3,232 feet Latitude: 17.15°N 17°9’0″N Longitude: 62.58°W 62°35’0″W

The conical island of Nevis, lying across a narrow channel from St. Kitts (St. Christopher) Island, is a composite cone with overlapping summit craters. An unnamed lava dome is located NE of the rims of the two craters. Nevis Peak, . . . → Read More: Nevis Peak, St. Kitts and Nevis

Kliuchevskoi, Russia

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2010 Summit Elevation: 4835 m 15,863 feet Latitude: 56.057°N 56°3’24″N Longitude: 160.638°E 160°38’18″E

Kliuchevskoi is Kamchatka’s highest and most active volcano. Since its origin about 6000 years ago, the beautifully symmetrical, 4835-m-high basaltic stratovolcano has produced frequent moderate-volume explosive and effusive . . . → Read More: Kliuchevskoi, Russia

North Gorda Ridge, North Eastern Pacific Ocean

Volcano Type: Submarine volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1996 Summit Elevation: -3000 m - 9,842 feet Latitude: 42.67°N 42°40’0″N Longitude: 126.78°W 126°47’0″W

The northernmost of five segments of the Gorda Ridge lies immediately south of the Blanco Transform Fault that offsets the Gorda and Juan de Fuca oceanic spreading ridges. The 65-km-long . . . → Read More: North Gorda Ridge, North Eastern Pacific Ocean

Aniakchak, Alaska

Volcano Type: Caldera Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1931 Summit Elevation: 1341 m 4,400 feet Latitude: 56.88°N 56°53’0″N Longitude: 158.17°W 158°10’0″W

One of the most dramatic calderas of the Aleutian arc, the 10-km-wide Aniakchak caldera was formed around 3400 years ago during a voluminous eruption in which pyroclastic flows traveled more than 50 . . . → Read More: Aniakchak, Alaska

Pico de São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe

Volcano Type: Shield volcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 2024 m 6,640 feet Latitude: 0.20°N 0°12’0″N Longitude: 6.58°E 6°35’0″E

Pico de São Tomé is the highest mountain in São Tomé and Príncipe at 2,024 metres. It lies just west of the centre of São Tomé Island in the Obo National Park. The second highest point, Pico . . . → Read More: Pico de São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe

Taryatu-Chulutu, Mongolia

Volcano Type: Volcanic field Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 2980 BC ± 150 years Summit Elevation: 2400 m 7,874 feet Latitude: 48.17°N 48°10’0″N Longitude: 99.70°E 99°42’0″E

The Taryatu-Chulutu volcanic field lies in north-central Mongolia about 250 km west of Ulaanbaatar. This area, also known as the Hangayn or Tariat volcanic field, is located in a broad region of . . . → Read More: Taryatu-Chulutu, Mongolia

Soufrière Guadeloupe, West Indies

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1977 Summit Elevation: 1467 m 4,813 feet Latitude: 16.05°N 16°3’0″N Longitude: 61.67°W 61°40’0″W

La Soufrière de la Guadeloupe volcano occupies the southern end of Basse-Terre, the western half of the butterfly-shaped island of Guadeloupe. Construction of the Grand Découverte volcano about 0.2 million . . . → Read More: Soufrière Guadeloupe, West Indies

Camiguin de Babuyanes, Philippines

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1857 (in or before) Summit Elevation: 712 m 2,336 feet Latitude: 18.83°N 18°50’0″N Longitude: 121.860°E 121°51’36″E

Camiguin de Babuyanes is an active stratovolcano on Calayan Island part of the Babuyan Islands group, in Calayan municipality, in the province of Cagayan.

Well forested, Camiguin de Babuyanes has an elevation of 712 metres, . . . → Read More: Camiguin de Babuyanes, Philippines

Dotsero, Colorado, USA

Dotsero

Volcano Type: Maar Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 2200 BC ± 300 years Summit Elevation: 2230 m 7,316 feet Latitude: 39.661°N 39°39’38″N Longitude: 107.035°W 107°2’6″W Dotsero is a 700-meter (2,300 ft) wide by 400-meter (1,300 ft) deep maar volcano located in Dotsero, Colorado near the junction of the Colorado River and the Eagle River. It is classified as a scoria . . . → Read More: Dotsero, Colorado, USA

Laguna Caldera, Philippines

Volcano Type: Caldera Volcano Status: Fumarolic Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 743 m 2,438 feet Latitude: 14.42°N 14°25’0″N Longitude: 121.27°E 121°16’0″E

The elliptical, 10 x 20 km wide Laguna Caldera SE of Manila forms the middle lake-filled basin of the three-pronged, dinosaur-footprint-shaped Laguna de Bay, the largest lake on Luzon Island. Pre-caldera Pleistocene volcanism formed basaltic to basaltic-andesitic . . . → Read More: Laguna Caldera, Philippines

Galunggung, Java, Indonesia

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1984 Summit Elevation: 2168 m 7,113 feet Latitude: 7.25°S 7°15’0″S Longitude: 108.058°E 108°3’30″E

The forested slopes of 2168-m-high Galunggung volcano in western Java are cut by a large horseshoe-shaped caldera breached to the SE that has served to channel the products of recent . . . → Read More: Galunggung, Java, Indonesia

Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica

Turrialba, (3,340 meters) the southeast-most of Costa Rica’s Holocene volcanoes, is a large vegetation-covered stratovolcano located to the northeast of Irazu volcano. Three well-defined craters occur at the upper end of a broad summit depression that is breached to the northeast. Turrialba has been quiescent since a series of explosive eruptions in the 19th . . . → Read More: Turrialba Volcano, Costa Rica

Mount Erciyes, Turkey

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 6880 BC ± 40 years Summit Elevation: 3916 m 12,848 feet Latitude: 38.52°N 38°31’0″N Longitude: 35.48°E 35°29’0″E

Mount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.

Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching 3,916 metres. It is considered to be an . . . → Read More: Mount Erciyes, Turkey

Black Peak, Alaska, USA

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 1900 BC ± 150 years Summit Elevation: 1032 m 3,386 feet Latitude: 56.552°N 56°33’9″N Longitude: 158.785°W 158°47’5″W

Black Peak

The highly eroded stratovolcano and lava dome complex of Black Peak was constructed within an ice-free mid-Holocene caldera with two small caldera . . . → Read More: Black Peak, Alaska, USA

Tori-shima, Izu Islands, Japan

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2002 Summit Elevation: 394 m 1,293 feet Latitude: 30.480°N 30°28’48″N Longitude: 140.306°E 140°18’22″E

The circular, 2.7-km-wide island of Tori-shima in the southern Izu Islands is capped by an unvegetated summit cone formed during an eruption in 1939. Fresh lava flows from this eruption form part . . . → Read More: Tori-shima, Izu Islands, Japan

Mount Cagua, Philippines

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1860 Summit Elevation: 1133 m 3,717 feet Latitude: 18.222°N 18°13’18″N Longitude: 122.123°E 122°7’24″E

Mount Cagua, a 1133-m-high stratovolcano, lies at the NE tip of Luzon. The circular summit crater is 1.5 km in diameter, with steep, 60-m-high walls. Basaltic-andesite and basaltic lava effusion characterized the initial stage of volcanism during the . . . → Read More: Mount Cagua, Philippines

Tinakula, Solomon Islands

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2010 (continuing) Summit Elevation: 851 m 2,792 feet Latitude: 10.38°S 10°23’0″S Longitude: 165.80°E 165°48’0″E

The small 3.5-km-wide island of Tinakula is the exposed summit of a massive stratovolcano that rises 3-4 km from the sea floor at the NW end of the Santa . . . → Read More: Tinakula, Solomon Islands

Tangaroa, New Zealand

Volcano Type: Submarine volcano Volcano Status: Fumarolic Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 600 m 1,968 feet Latitude: 36.321°S 36°19’15″S Longitude: 178.028°E 178°1’42″E

Tangaroa submarine volcano in the southern Kermadec arc rises to within 600 m of the sea surface. The volcano is elongated in a NW-SE direction and contains smaller cones on its . . . → Read More: Tangaroa, New Zealand

Karisimbi, Congo

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Potassium-Argon Last Known Eruption: 8050 BC (?) Summit Elevation: 4507 m 14,787 feet Latitude: 1.50°S 1°30’0″S Longitude: 29.45°E 29°27’0″E

Karisimbi, the highest of the Virunga volcanoes, is a complex volcano with a symmetrical sharp-peaked summit. The 2-km-wide Branca caldera, located SE of the 4507-m-high summit, is filled by viscous . . . → Read More: Karisimbi, Congo

Morne aux Diables, Dominica

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 861 m 2,825 feet Latitude: 15.612°N 15°36’45″N Longitude: 61.43°W 61°26’0″W

Dominica has at least 8 potentially active volcanoes. One of these is Morne aux Diables, an isolated composite cone that forms a peninsula at the extreme northern end of the island. Measuring 7 kilometers diameter at its base and rising . . . → Read More: Morne aux Diables, Dominica

Mt. Amorong, Philippines

Volcano Type: Lava domes Volcano Status: Fumarolic Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 376 m 1,234 feet Latitude: 15.828°N 15°49’42″N Longitude: 120.805°E 120°48’18″E

Mount Amorong is the only one of a cluster of small trachyandesitic lava domes and diatremes at the northern end of the Luzon Central Plain that displays solfataric activity (Wolfe 1982, pers. comm.). A K-Ar date . . . → Read More: Mt. Amorong, Philippines

Mt. Banahaw, Philippines

Volcano Type: Complex volcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 2158 m 7,080 feet Latitude: 14.07°N 14°4’0″N Longitude: 121.48°E 121°29’0″E

The 2158-m-high Banahaw (also known as Banahao) is the highest of a group of volcanoes south and east of Manila. Banahaw is flanked by San Cristobal volcano on the west and Banahaw de Lucban on the NE. Andesitic-to-dacitic lava . . . → Read More: Mt. Banahaw, Philippines

Cerro Bayo, Chile-Argentina

Volcano Type: Complex volcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 5401 m 17,720 feet Latitude: 25.42°S 25°25’0″S Longitude: 68.58°W 68°35’0″W

Cerro Bayo is a complex volcano of partial Holocene age located along the Chile-Argentina border. An older center to the south contains a poorly preserved, 800-m-wide crater. A younger northern center along the national border has a . . . → Read More: Cerro Bayo, Chile-Argentina

Mount Fox, Australia

Mount Fox

Volcano Type: Pyroclastic cone Volcano Status: Dormant Last Known Eruption: unknown Summit Elevation: 120 m Latitude: 18°50′S Longitude: 145°48′E Mount Fox is a 560,000-year-old cinder cone located 50 km west of Ingham, Queensland, Australia. Mount Fox has a shallow crater and a lava flow that extends away from the southern base of the cone. The cone lies on basaltic lava flows . . . → Read More: Mount Fox, Australia

Kanaga, Aleutian Islands, USA

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1995 Summit Elevation: 1307 m 4,288 feet Latitude: 51.923°N 51°55’22″N Longitude: 177.168°W 177°10’4″W

Symmetrical Kanaga stratovolcano is situated within the Kanaton caldera at the northern tip of Kanaga Island. The rim of Kanaton caldera forms a 760-m-high arcuate ridge south and east of Kanaga; a lake occupies part of the SE . . . → Read More: Kanaga, Aleutian Islands, USA

Shasta, California, USA

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1786 Summit Elevation: 4317 m 14,163 feet Latitude: 41.409°N 41°24’32″N Longitude: 122.193°W 122°11’36″W

Mt Shasta is the largest volcano in the Cascade Range. The volcano was destroyed by the earth’s largest avalanche in the Quaternary period (1.8 million years and 2.6 million years . . . → Read More: Shasta, California, USA

Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1994 Summit Elevation: 3432 m 11,260 feet Latitude: 9.979°N 9°58’45″N Longitude: 83.852°W 83°51’9″W

Costa Rica’s highest volcano, Irazú has a broad summit, vegetated flanks, and a history of frequent eruptions going back to 1723. Its last eruption, 1963-65, sent tephra and secondary mudflows into cultivated areas, caused at least 20 deaths, . . . → Read More: Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica

Dallol, Ethiopia

Volcano Type: Explosion craters Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1926 Summit Elevation: -48 m - 157 feet Latitude: 14.242°N 14°14’30″N Longitude: 40.30°E 40°18’0″E

Numerous phreatic explosion craters dot the Salt Plain NNE of the Erta Ale Range in one of the lowest areas of the desolate Danakil . . . → Read More: Dallol, Ethiopia

Lastarria, Chile-Argentina

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 5697 m 18,691 feet Latitude: 25.17°S 25°10’0″S Longitude: 68.50°W 68°30’0″W

The NNW-trending edifice of 5697-m-high Lastarria volcano along the Chile-Argentina border contains five nested summit craters. The youngest feature is a lava dome that overlaps the northern crater rim. The large andesitic-dacitic Negriales lava field on the western . . . → Read More: Lastarria, Chile-Argentina

Mount Elbrus, Russia

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Tephrochronology Last Known Eruption: 50 AD ± 50 years Summit Elevation: 5633 m 18,481 feet Latitude: 43.33°N 43°20’0″N Longitude: 42.45°E 42°27’0″E

Mount Elbrus

Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains of SW Russia, is a large glaciated stratovolcano with twin summits. The 5595-m-high eastern . . . → Read More: Mount Elbrus, Russia

Unzen, Kyushu, Japan

Volcano Type: Complex volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1996 Summit Elevation: 1500 m 4,921 feet Latitude: 32.757°N 32°45’24″N Longitude: 130.294°E 130°17’40″E

The massive Unzen volcanic complex comprises much of the Shimabara Peninsula east of the city of Nagasaki. A 30-40-km-long, E-W-trending graben extends across the peninsula. Three large stratovolcanoes with . . . → Read More: Unzen, Kyushu, Japan

Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Volcano Type: Fissure vents Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 20 BC ± 75 years Summit Elevation: 1950 m 6,398 feet Latitude: 28.00°N 28°0’0″N Longitude: 15.58°W 15°35’0″W

The largely Miocene-to-Pliocene island of Gran Canaria in the middle of the Canary archipelago has been strongly eroded into steep-walled radial gorges called barrancos. Three major volcanic structures form the circular . . . → Read More: Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Mount Liamuiga, St. Kitts and Nevis

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 160 AD ± 200 years Summit Elevation: 1156 m 3,793 feet Latitude: 17.37°N 17°22’0″N Longitude: 62.80°W 62°48’0″W

Liamuiga Volcano is located at the NW end of St. Kitts Island. Two lava domes are located on the upper western flank. The most recent major eruptions less than 2000 years ago produced pyroclastic . . . → Read More: Mount Liamuiga, St. Kitts and Nevis

Cerro Negro, Nicaragua

Volcano Type: Cinder cones Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1999 Summit Elevation: 728 m 2,388 feet Latitude: 12.506°N 12°30’22″N Longitude: 86.702°W 86°42’7″W

Central America’s youngest volcano, Cerro Negro, was born in April 1850 and has since been one of the most active volcanoes in Nicaragua. Cerro Negro is the largest, southernmost, and most . . . → Read More: Cerro Negro, Nicaragua

Karthala, Comoros

Volcano Type: Shield volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2007 Summit Elevation: 2361 m 7,746 feet Latitude: 11.75°S 11°45’0″S Longitude: 43.38°E 43°23’0″E

Karthala volcano is located on Grande Comore, the most westerly of four volcanic islands comprising the Comores Archipelago, between northern Madagascar and Mozambique. Karthala occupies the southern half of Grand Comore Island.

The islands of . . . → Read More: Karthala, Comoros

Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina

Volcano Type: Scoria cones Volcano Status: Holocene Last Known Eruption: Unknown Summit Elevation: 4000 m 13,123 feet Latitude: 26.08°S * 26°5’0″S Longitude: 67.50°W 67°30’0″W

The Antofagasta de la Sierra volcanic field contains some of the youngest volcanic vents of the Argentinian Puna region. The volcanic field is located SW of Beltran volcano and between the Salar de . . . → Read More: Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Volcano Type: Shield volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1984 Summit Elevation: 4170 m 13,681 feet Latitude: 19.475°N 19°28’30″N Longitude: 155.608°W 155°36’30″W

Mauna Loa is Hawaiian for “Long Mountain”, probably because of its long, gently sloping shape. Mauna Loa is a single mountain on the island of Hawaii. The island of . . . → Read More: Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1991 Summit Elevation: 5321 m 17,457 feet Latitude: 4.895°N 4°53’43″N Longitude: 75.322°W 75°19’21″W

Nevado del Ruiz is a broad, glacier-covered volcano in central Colombia that covers >200 sq km. Three major edifices, composed of andesitic and dacitic lavas and andesitic pyroclastics, have been . . . → Read More: Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia

Smith Rock, Izu Islands, Japan

Volcano Type: Submarine volcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1916 Summit Elevation: 136 m 446 feet Latitude: 31.436°N 31°26’9″N Longitude: 140.054°E 140°3’13″E

Smith Rock is a steep-sided basaltic pinnacle that forms part of the outer southern flank of a 8-9 km wide submarine caldera that truncates a 20-km-wide seamount. The caldera was formed . . . → Read More: Smith Rock, Izu Islands, Japan

Krafla, Iceland

Krafla Lake

Volcano Type: Caldera Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 1984 Summit Elevation: 818 m 2,684 feet Latitude: 65.73°N 65°44’0″N Longitude: 16.78°W 16°47’0″W

The Krafla central volcano, located NE of Myvatn lake, is a topographically indistinct 10-km-wide caldera that is cut by a N-S-trending fissure system. Eruption of a rhyolitic welded . . . → Read More: Krafla, Iceland

Lipari, Italy

Volcano Type: Stratovolcanoes Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 1230 ± 40 years Summit Elevation: 602 m 1,975 feet Latitude: 38.48°N 38°29’0″N Longitude: 14.95°E 14°57’0″E

Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands, is located immediately north of Vulcano Island. The irregular-shaped island contains numerous small stratovolcanoes, craters, and lava domes on a . . . → Read More: Lipari, Italy

Chichinautzin, México

Volcano Type: Volcanic field Volcano Status: Radiocarbon Last Known Eruption: 400 AD ± 100 years Summit Elevation: 3930+ m 12,894 feet Latitude: 19.08°N * 19°5’0″N Longitude: 99.13°W 99°8’0″W

The massive Chichinautzin volcanic field covers a 90-km-long, E-W-trending area immediately south of Mexico City. The Sierra Chichinautzin, formed primarily of overlapping small cinder cones and . . . → Read More: Chichinautzin, México

Lopevi, Vanuatu

Volcano Type: Stratovolcano Volcano Status: Historical Last Known Eruption: 2007 Summit Elevation: 1413 m 4,636 feet Latitude: 16.507°S 16°30’24″S Longitude: 168.346°E 168°20’45″E

The small 7-km-wide conical island of Lopevi, known locally as Vanei Vollohulu, is one of Vanuatu’s most active volcanoes. A small summit crater containing a cinder cone is breached to the NW . . . → Read More: Lopevi, Vanuatu