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2023 eruption of Mount Marapi. / -0.3800; 100.4742. On 3 December 2023, Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupted, sending ash as high as 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) into the air, and depositing large amounts of volcanic ash in nearby districts. [1] Twenty-four hikers were found dead near the crater of the volcano.
Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount [6] (previously known as Lōʻihi) is an active submarine volcano about 22 mi (35 km) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaii. [7] The top of the seamount is about 3,200 ft (975 m) below sea level. This seamount is on the flank of Mauna Loa, the largest active subaerial shield volcano on Earth.
3166 ft. Northern Mariana Islands, commonwealth in political union with the United States. Ta'u. Lata Mountain. 964 m. 3163 ft. American Samoa, unincorporated territory of the United States. October Revolution Island. Mount Karpinsky.
The entire island of São Tomé is a massive shield volcano that rises from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, over 3,000 m (10,000 ft) below sea level. It formed along the Cameroon line, a line of volcanoes extending from Cameroon southwest into the Atlantic Ocean.
Location of the volcano on the island and risk to population. An explosive eruption occurred at 8:41 a.m. AST (12:41 UTC) on 9 April 2021, with an ash plume reaching approximately 10,000 m (32,000 ft) and drifting eastward towards the Atlantic Ocean. [16] [17] Approximately 16,000 people were told to evacuate the area surrounding the volcano.
Nishinoshima before 1973. Prior to 1974, Nishinoshima was a small, green island which had no eruptions in the past 10,000 years. The island was merely the tip of an undersea volcano some 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in height and 30 km (19 mi) wide at the base. [15]
Somma - stratovolcano. Last eruption. 1955-present [1] Sakurajima ( Japanese: 桜島, lit. ' Cherry Blossom Island') is an active stratovolcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. [2] The lava flows of the 1914 eruption connected it with the Ōsumi Peninsula. [3] It is the most active volcano in Japan.
May 3, 2024 at 6:43 AM. JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian government will permanently relocate almost 10,000 residents after a series of explosive eruptions of the Ruang volcano has raised ...