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Volcano
A vent or opening in a planet's surface that lets out pressurized molten rocks or magma, and gases from the inner core. Volcanoes come in various shapes and structure, but the most common ones are mountain-like structures with a crater at the summit.
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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 its cone shape ...
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 in the Calabarzon ...
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) southeast of Mayon Volcano ...
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 1,196 m (3,924 ft) ...
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 in the Dutch East ...
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 hundreds of thousands for ...
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 port city of St. ...
