Kunlun, listed by the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program as the Ashikule Volcanic Field, is a high-altitude cluster of ten pyroclastic cones at the western end of China's Kunlun ...

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 ...

Mélébingóy, previously known as Parker and also listed as Falen, overlooks Sarangani Bay near the southern end of Mindanao in the Philippines. Its heart-shaped summit lake lies within a 2.9-km-wide ...

Taranaki, formerly known as Egmont, is a prominent 2,518 m stratovolcano on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Its steep, nearly symmetrical profile is broken by Fanthams Peak, while a ...

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, ...

Dabbahu is a stratovolcano in northern Ethiopia's Afar Rift Volcanic Province, also known as Boina, Boyna, Moina and Mount Dabbahu. Its only recorded historical eruption began in September 2005 after ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...