List of dangerous volcanoes

[Mwalimu-G]

These Five Volcanoes Could Erupt Anytime Causing Untold Damage
There are approximately 1,500 active volcanoes worldwide, and five of them pose great danger.


By Loukia Papadopoulos
December 30, 2020
Today, there are approximately 1,500 active volcanoes on the planet. A volcano is a rupture in the Earth’s crust that allows lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the ground.
Volcanoes are usually located at the border of tectonic plates. Of these worldwide volcanoes, around 75% are located in the Pacific region known as The Ring of Fire.
These active volcanoes are being closely monitored as there are strong chances they may erupt during our lifetimes. Since they are located near population centers, they pose an extra threat.
Here are five of these active volcanoes that could go off at any time:
1. Mount Fuji, one of Japan's most iconic natural landmarks.
2. Mount Vesuvius, one of the most notorious volcanoes in history.

3.Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County.
4. Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines
5. Yellowstone Caldera, located in the Yellowstone National Park.
Each of these volcanoes has its own unique history and poses its own unique threat.

 

[Liberty]

I watched a documentary how Pompei was burried in 79 AD, and the unfoldings thereafter, so every time I see Mt. Kenya and Nyeri town and remember the ancient Roman city of Pompei, I take a deep breath

 

[The.Black.Templar]

I watched a documentary how Pompei was burried in 79 AD, and the unfoldings thereafter, so every time I see Mt. Kenya and Nyeri town and remember the ancient Roman city of Pompei, I take a deep breath

Mt kenya is extinct volcano, dont sweat it

 

[Budspencer]

Hio number 3, kuna legend by the name Harry R. Truman alikataa kuhama from its slopes even after they tried forcing him off the mountain. He was later vaporized by the exploding mountain top when it erupted in 1980.

 

[Ssabasajja]

Nyiragongo also caused damage in Goma, DRC. Na kuna ile ya Hawaii.

 

[crucial]

I watched a documentary how Pompei was burried in 79 AD, and the unfoldings thereafter, so every time I see Mt. Kenya and Nyeri town and remember the ancient Roman city of Pompei, I take a deep breath

Why single out Nyeri town and yet there are other habitats nearer the mountain. Nanyuki, Timau are less than 30KM radius from the peak.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Why single out Nyeri town and yet there are other habitats nearer the mountain. Nanyuki, Timau are less than 30KM radius from the peak.

It is where where his Padre and nun house is.

 

[It's Me Scumbag]

It is where where his Padre and nun house is.

Specifically Mathari Mission. That place had flyest nuns I had ever seen... And the student nurses at Mathari Mission Hospital,for a time I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up...

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Krakatoa is still very active

 

[shocks]

there are some prehistoric eruptions that nearly wiped out life on earth, eruptions so large they caused volcanic winters for decades on end

Category:VEI-8 volcanoes

The youngest called Taupo occured in New Zealand 26,500 years ago.

 

[Aviator]

Mt kenya is extinct volcano, dont sweat it

It may just resurrect. These things you can't be sure.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

It may just resurrect. These things you can't be sure.

Yep, considering the Somali tectonic plate is yet to complete divorcing the Nubian plate.

 

[Da Vinci]

Closer home we have this one....


Mount Meru is located just north of the city of Arusha, in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. It is the second-highest mountain in Tanzania, after Mount Kilimanjaro. Much of its bulk was lost about 7,800 years ago due to a summit collapse.[7] Mount Meru most recently had a minor eruption in 1910.[2

I find myself feeling Arusha's vulnerability whenever I am in town, especially in the populous suburb called Ngaramtoni on the Namanga Nairobi Highway.

 

[Aviator]

Someone help me understand this about mt. Longonot.
While growing up in a village not far from there, there are times we could see fire on the mountain, and we were told it is eruption (gùtherùka in Greek). But we are told the last time it erupted was in 1860s.
What was happening in the 80s? What's this we were seeing?