EARTH SCIENCE
VOLCANOES
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Extinct Volcano
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Dormant Volcano
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Active Volcano
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What’s a volcano?
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Detailed explanation-1: -Volcanoes are classified as active, dormant, or extinct. Active volcanoes have a recent history of eruptions; they are likely to erupt again. Dormant volcanoes have not erupted for a very long time but may erupt at a future time. Extinct volcanoes are not expected to erupt in the future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Disaster description. The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano on 15 January 2022 was the largest recorded since the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are about 1, 350 potentially active volcanoes worldwide, aside from the continuous belts of volcanoes on the ocean floor at spreading centers like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. About 500 of those 1, 350 volcanoes have erupted in historical time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Etna, Italy. Mount Merapi, Indonesia. Mount Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pacaya, Guatemala. Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica. Kīlauea, Hawaii. More items