Volcano enthusiasts have enlisted the help of a University of Manchester academic to come up with a list of the top ten most dangerous volcanoes in the world. And the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, ...

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This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

Today, Vesuvius remains active and, with nearly three million people living in its shadow, is the most dangerous volcano in Europe. The eruption of Pinatubo in June 1991 could easily have been ...

Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

Popocatépetl (Mexico) Last eruption: Ongoing since the early 2000s Effects of a major eruption: The third-tallest active volcano in the ... flows" that would reach most of the towns in the ...

It has a 1.2 km diameter summit caldera containing the world's most active and largest lava ... are what make it one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. Not much is known about how long ...

So, even though volcanoes can be very dangerous they play an important part in the lives of those living nearby! Lava from an eruption. Most volcanic eruptions are caused by pieces of the Earth's ...