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Classification of volcanoes pdf Continue The Earth is home to about 1,500 active or potentially active volcanoes, with about 40 of these often steaming vents erupting at any given time, in various ways. Some love of yl. Some erupt violently. But all these are the exciting masses of dynamic land. Here are 11 of the most infamous, and some little-known, volcanoes from around the world. 1. Novrupta Novarupta lava plug. Picture: NPS Alaska Novarupta does not look like a typical mountain-shaped volcano. Instead, it exists like a 200-foot dome of lava. But don't be fooled. Novarupta is responsible for the most powerful eruption of the 20th century, resulting in that Mount St. Helens' explosion of 1980 look small. The 1912 eruption, marred by the sinking of the Titanic, is considered one of the five most powerful eruptions in human history. The ash cloud has spread to Africa. The eruption turned the once-combatant-filled river valley into a barren, steaming lunar landscape called the Valley of 10,000 Smoke. This also led to the collapse of another volcano. And this ash plunged near kodiak Island into darkness for almost three days. Moreover, no Nowrupta existed until 1912. Volcanologists believe that a huge vent formed during a strong eruption before a thick mass of lava eventually oozed and cordoned off the volcano - at least for now. This volcano has not erupted for more than a century, but it is young, soars at times, and is certainly active. 2. In 2016, the Parikutin drone captured this image of the Parakutin volcano. Picture: MARIO VAZQUEZ/AFP/Getty Images Pareutin was born in a Mexican cornfield in 1943. It rose from the ground one February day, and after about eight hours began to roar and throw a number of incandescent bombs with great force, according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists. Within a week, it surpassed the height of 500 feet. The eruption ended nine years later and left a cone-like hill of volcanic rock and debris more than 1,000 feet high. Paracutin has not erupted for more than half a century, but is found in volcanically active land. 3. Mount Vesuvius The top of the snow-covered Mount Vesuvius looms over the ruins of Pompeii. Image: LightRocket via Getty Images Mount Vesuvius is probably the most infamous mountain in history. Nearly 2,000 years ago, in 79 AD, a mountain erupted violently, burying Roman communities like Pompeii in an avalanche of sand like volcanic rock. This type of eruption, which blows up ominous columns of ash more than 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) into the sky, is called the Plinian eruption, named after a local Roman who lived to document the event. Pliny the Younger, nephew of the famous Roman General Pliny the Elder (who died during the eruption), fled Vesuvius when a cloud of ash collapsed from the mountain as a result of devastating avalanches of fire. The dark cloud turned day into night, terrifying Romans. As Pliny wrote: People their own fate or the fate of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their horror of death. Many begged for the help of the gods, but even more imagined that there were no gods left, and that the universe was forever plunged into eternal darkness. The volcano has been active so far, but its eruptions, like many volcanoes, are intermittent. 4. Yellowstone Ferry Grand Prismatic Source in Yellowstone National Park. Image: Nps Many volcanologists not only consider Yellowstone as a volcano, but a supervolcano, as it is capable of exploding from colossal quantities (at least 240 cubic miles) of molten material that has occurred on this supervolcano in half in the last 2 million years. These large eruptions are rare - in human time, at any rate - but the volcano is undoubtedly active. Yellowstone National Park, which sits atop a volcano, contains more than 500 erupting geysers, fueled by scorching underground, where molten rock brews nearby. The volcano is one of the most carefully controlled in the world. Earthquakes would herald eruptions weeks, if not years, in advance. So, don't worry, we'll have a lot of notice if the supervolcano threatens to erupt at any time in the near future. 5. Mount Pele On the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Image: UIG via Getty Images In 1902, there were only a handful of reported survivors in Saint-Pierre, a town sitting at the foot of Mount Pele in the Caribbean. (One of them was saved by a prison sentence in a stone cell.) The eruption is estimated to have killed about 28,000 people as an avalanche of scorching rocks destroyed the modest city. Although terrifying, the event prompted volcanologist Thomas Jagger to find the world's first volcano observatory, in Hawaii. After seeing more than 20,000 bodies buried by destroyed buildings and volcanic rocks, Jagger was forced to improve the lack of science. I realized that the murder of thousands of people by underground equipment is completely unknown to geologists... was worthy of a lifetime of work, he wrote. The volcano last issued significant aftershocks in 1985, so it is now in an inactive phase. 6. Krakatau Krakatau blows away ash and steam in 2013. Image: Mast Irham/Epa/REX/Shutterstock During the extreme eruption of 1883, Krakatau made a sound so loud that people 3,000 miles away documented hearing the boom. People within a 160 km radius of the eruption would experience severe ear pain and permanent hearing loss from exposure to these shock waves, the University of Oregon wrote. Estimates of exposure levels show that it would be like standing on a rocket launch pad without ear protection. Many people nearby, however, were even more apprehensive: about 36,000 were killed as a result of subsequent streams of scorching volcanic rocks. Every few years, Krakatau will Lava flows down its slopes or spew ash into the air - but ear-damaging explosive events are much rarer. 7. Kilauea Lava flows from Kilauea in June 2018. Image: USGS Not all volcanoes are fortunately so deadly. Hawaii's youngest volcano, Kilauea, is now synonymous with lava. The volcano has been spewing lava continuously for 35 years. It tends to yl lava rather than explode. Deaths here are rare, but certainly possible if someone wanders close to spatting vents of lava or toxic gases. Kilauea lava flows often meet the sea, where they cool and gradually add more land to the big island. 8. Mauna Loa in the form of the Mauna Loa Shield. Image: Usgs Looming over Kilauea is the largest, by mass, mountain on Earth. When measured from the dark depths of the Pacific seabed, Mauna Loa is higher than Mount Everest. It makes up more than half of Hawaii's Big Island. It is still an active, growing volcano, built entirely of lava. 9. Erefayokul Snow- Covered Erefayykull in the distance. Image: wikimedia commons/Reykholt This icy active volcano is the largest in Iceland, and an eruption here can stop air traffic in Europe for days or weeks - like its cousin Eyjafjallajakullu, which closed European airports for almost a week in 2010. Planes cannot fly in ash conditions because engines inhale tiny volcanic rocks, or ash. Although exactly how long flight disruptions can last depends on various factors such as wind direction and the amount of ash in the air. When Erefayokul will erupt, it will sweep through a long-settled layer of ice and snow. 10. Le Havre Map of the underwater volcano Le Havre. Picture: Rebecca Carey/UNIVERSITY TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA./WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE About a mile under the Pacific Ocean is the Volcano Le Havre. It attracted quite a lot of attention in 2012, when both air passengers and the Royal Navy of New York spotted a floating collection of 150 square miles of porous volcanic rock called pumice. After a deeper study, the researchers found that the volcano unleashed a massive eruption, roughly equivalent to the largest eruption on land in the 20th century - that's looking at you, Novarupta. 11. Shishaldin Natural symmetry. Image: Alaska Volcano Observatory / Musselwhite, Levi / Usgs Shishaldin sits in one of the world's most volcanically active regions, the Alaskan Peninsula. This young volcanic cousin, Novarupta, can also be found in this glacier and volcano laden territory. Shishaldin, known for its impressive symmetry, often emits ash, steam or both from the top. Bonus volcano: Olympus Mons 3D view of Olympus Mons. Image: NASA This Martian behemoth is the largest volcano in our System. It's the size of Arizona. As in Kilauea in Hawaii, it is a shield volcano that takes on a gentle sloping structure as lava flows accumulate to accumulate It's time. But Mars is almost completely dead, geologically. So is Olympus Mons. The U.S. Geological Survey defines the volcano as a vent on the Earth's surface, either on land or on the seabed, from which molten rock called magma can erupt or ooze, as well as ash and gases. Different types of volcanoes erupt in different ways, with some erupting spectacularly, while others, primarily Hawaiian shield volcanoes, have steadily oozed lava. There are different types of volcanoes, including stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes and slag cones, as well as different types of lava and other volcanic flows. Volcanoes can be active, dormant or extinct. Most of Earth's volcanoes are located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, where many of Earth's tectonic plates subduct under another slab. Currently volcanic eruptions cannot be predicted, although most large, active volcanoes are regularly monitored and allowing a warning when they think an eruption is likely.