Quick facts about volcanoes The world's largest volcano: Mauna Loa, which rises 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) above the seafloor Number of active volcanoes in the U.S.: 165 Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From ...
The 1815, volcano Tambora in Indonesia was the greatest volcanic eruption ever observed by humans. Not only did it kill over 70,000 people, and it also caused the worst famine in the nineteenth century.[21] Tambora’s 1815 massive eruption and its devastating effects are said to have inspire...
volcano (vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ) n,pl-noesor-nos 1.(Physical Geography) an opening in the earth's crust from which molten lava, rock fragments, ashes, dust, and gases are ejected from below the earth's surface 2.(Physical Geography) a mountain formed from volcanic material ejected fr...
volcano, vents or fissures in the earth's crust through which gases, molten rock, or lava, and solid fragments are discharged. Their study is called volcanology. The term volcano is commonly applied both to the vent and to the conical mountain (cone) built up around the vent by the erupte...
Tambora is the only eruption in modern history to rate a VEI of 7. Global temperatures were an average offive degrees coolerbecause of this eruption; even in the United States, 1816 was known as the "year without a summer." Crops failed worldwide, and in Europe and the United States an...
Mount Etna has erupted regularly for thousands of years, and is still a very active volcano. Eruptions as recently as 2014 caused air traffic to be affected. You can see a news story about these eruptionshere. Back to page index Mount Tambora, Indonesia ...
Pavlof Volcano, volcanic peak of the Aleutian Range, southwestern Alaska, U.S. Situated about 580 miles (930 km) southwest of Anchorage, on the west side of Pavlof Bay, it lies near the southwestern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Rising to more than 8,260
Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Icelandic volcano whose name is derived from an Icelandic phrase meaning ‘the island’s mountain glacier.’ Lying beneath Eyjafjallajökull (Eyjafjalla Glacier), its summit rises to 5,466 feet (1,666 meters) above sea level.
It ejected about 150 cubic kilometers of rhyolithic magma, i.e. 3 times more than the largest historic eruption, the 1815 Tambora eruption! The eruption produced massive rhyolithic pyroclastic flows that traveled across the sea for 100 km and reached southern Kyushu. Ash layers from this ...
9.In 1815 in Tambora, Indonesia the Mount Tambora volcano exploded resulting in the deaths of 92,000 people, mostly due to starvation. 10.Cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons are the same thing. Different names are used in different parts of the world. In the Atlantic Ocean they are known as...