Earthquakes often precede volcano eruptions, sometimes only by hours and other times by several months. While most seismic activity related to volcanoes is not necessarily followed by an eruption, ...

Kelud volcano (also spelled Kelut) is one of East Java's most active volcanoes. The volcano has a spectacular large crater that contains a lake, which was a popular weekend destination but also the ...

Batu Tara is an isolated island stratovolcano in Indonesia's Flores Sea, about 50 km north of Lembata. Its first recorded eruption lasted from 1847 to at least August 1852, producing explosions and a ...

Logudoro is an ancient volcanic field in northwestern Sardinia, Italy. Its volcanic rocks cover about 500 km² and include lava flows alongside cinder and spatter cones, with smaller amounts of ...

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Gamalama rises across the island of Ternate, west of Halmahera in Indonesia, and is among the country's most active volcanoes. Its eruptions have been recorded frequently since the 1500s, aided by ...

Hekla is a 1,490-m-high stratovolcano in southern Iceland, near the southern end of the eastern rift zone. It stands where that rift meets the transform zone of South Iceland. Although Hekla occupies ...

Cabalían is a stratovolcano at the southeastern tip of Leyte Island in the Philippines. Its rugged, vegetation-covered slopes rise to an irregular summit crater containing a lake, while hot springs ...

Halla is a 1,919-m shield volcano that makes up much of South Korea's Jeju (Cheju) Island, about 90 km south of the Korean Peninsula. Its broad flanks carry hundreds of basaltic cones, while a ...

On 10 April 1815, Tambora produced the largest eruption known on the planet during the past 10,000 years. The volcano erupted more than 50 cubic kilometers of magma. Caldera collapse at the end of the ...

Karkar is a forested volcanic island in Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Volcanic Arc. Its stratovolcano rises to 1,839 m and is crowned by two nested calderas, with the active Bagiai cone inside the ...

Yake-dake is a 2,455 m stratovolcano in Japan's Nankai Volcanic Arc, rising above the resort of Kamikochi in the Northern Japan Alps. The name is also written Yakedake, while Yakedake and Yakeyama are ...