Famous Volcano Information
Volcano Name Volcano Location Volcano Fun Fact
| Acongua | Argentina | It is the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Cotopaxi | Ecuador | It's eruption in 1877 started a mudflow that went 150 miles and killed 1,000 people. |
| El Chichon | Mexico | It's eruption in 1982 killed 187 people and let out a cloud of dust and sulfur dioxide gas high up into the air. |
| Krakatau | Indonesia | 3,000 miles away It's magnificent eruption in 1883 was heard. It produced sea waves about 130 feet high that drowned 36,000 people on some nearby islands. |
| Lassen Peack | California | It is one of the few volcano's in the Cascade Range ; It's most recent eruption was in 1921. |
| Mauna Loa | Hawaii | It is the earth's largest volcano. It is about 30,000 feet above the ocean floor. It's about 60 miles wide around the bottom. |
| Mount Etna | Sicily | About 20,ooo were killed by it's eruption in 1669. |
| Mount Pelee | Martinique | It let out a glowing cloud and destroyed the city of St. -Pierre and killed about 30,000 people in a matter of minutes in 1902. |
| Mount Pinatubo | Philippines | It erupted in 1991 it may be the one of the largest eruptions of the 19o0's it flung about 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide gas up into the air. |
| Mount Saint Helens | Washington | It's violent eruption in 1980 let out a ton of molten rock and hot ash. It killed 57 people. |
| Mount Tambora | Indonesia | In 1815 it's eruption gave 6 million times more power than an Atomic Bomb. It killed about 92,000 people. |
| Nevado del Ruiz | Colombia | It erupted in 1985 and started floods and mudslides. It destroyed the city of Armero and killed about 25,000 people. |
| Paricutin | Mexico | It started erupting in a farmer's field in 1943. It built a cinder cone more than 500 feet high in just six days. |
| Stromboli | Mediterranean Sea | It's been active since ancient times. It erupts for long times, months even years. |
| Surtsey | North Atlantic Ocean | It had an underwater eruption in 1963. It started making the island of Surtsey after it's final eruption of lava in 1967. The island was more than one square mile. |
| Thera 1 | Mediterranean Sea | It erupted in about 1500 B.C. might have destroyed a Minonian civilization on Crete. The Lost Continent of Atlantis might be based on that eruption. |
| Vesuvius | Italy | It erupted in 79 A.D. It made history's most famous eruption. It destroyed the town's of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae. |