Natural environment

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Mount Rishiri

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Rishiri is a quaternary stratovolcano located off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan in the Sea of Japan. The extinct volcano rises out of the sea forming Rishiri Island. Because ...

Mount Banahaw

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Banahaw is an active volcano on Luzon in the Philippines. The three-peaked volcano complex is located between the provinces of Laguna and Quezon and is the tallest mountain ...

Mount Bulusan

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Bulusan is the southernmost volcano on Luzon Island in the Republic of the Philippines. It is situated in the province of Sorsogon in the Bicol region, 70 km (43 mi) ...

Mount Iriga

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Iriga is one of the active volcanos in the Philippines, in the province of Camarines Sur, in the Philippines. It's a stratovolcano about a kilometre from Lake Buhi. It rises ...

Mount Tambora

Natural environment; Volcano

The Volcanic Explosivity Index goes up to 8. On that scale, the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora rates a very destructive 7. The explosion took place on the island of Sumbawa (then ...

Eyjafjallajokull

Natural environment; Volcano

It was like an overly contrived disaster flick: A mammoth cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano creeps across the European continent, shutting down airports and stranding ...

Mount Pelée

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Pelée, standing more than 4,500 feet high on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, erupted violently in May 1902, killing nearly 30,000 people — effectively the entire ...