volcano

     

A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

Trivia about volcano

  • Soyth America's Cotopaxi, among the world's highest of these, has an almost perfectly symmetrical cone
  • Indonesia's Mount Marapi, whose name means "fire mountain", is one of these
  • The Helgafell, one of these dormant for thousands of years, erupted on the island of Heimaey in 1973
  • The Canary Islands' highest point, 12,000-foot Pico de Teide, is the peak of a dormant one of these
  • The island of Martinique was mainly formed by one of these & in 1902, partly destroyed by one
  • Central America's highest point, Tajumulco, is an inactive one of these
  • Residents of Montserrat were ordered to evacuate in 1997 when one of these began heating up
  • Tommy Lee Jones & Anne Heche no doubt had a blast making this film that erupted on the screen in 1997
  • Dad says you might get burned, so don't stand close to the rim of an active one of these geologic features
  • Found on Ross Island, Mount Erebus is the southernmost active one of these in the world
  • Pinatubo
  • Note the lava channels on Mars' Olympus Mons, one of these that's higher than Everest & as big as Arizona
  • Pele, a Polynesian fire goddess, lives inside one of these; it erupts when she gets angry
  • Take a day trip to Iceland & stand on the edge of Hekla, an active one of these
  • The highest point in Tonga is 3,400-foot Mount Kao, a dormant one of these that formed Kao Island
  • When the top of one of these collapses, a caldera remains
  • In the 1990s, one of these destroyed Plymouth, the capital of Montserrat
  • "The coast is toast"
  • Olympus Mons, one of these lava-spewing openings in Mars' surface, is over 16 miles high
  • This type of eruption happens when molten rock, gas & ash pour through a vent in the earth
  • Crater Lake in Oregon wasn't formed by a meteor strike but by one of these
  • Don't get too close to one of these, like Etna or Vesuvius, if one starts erupting in your backyard
  • In 1816 the weather in New England was affected by Tambora, one of these in what's now Indonesia
  • ...this, like Paricutin in Mexico
  • At over 15.5 miles high, the Martian mountain known as Olympus Mons is the largest of these in our solar system
  • Soufriere Hills
  • In 2010, Merapi, one of these in Indonesia, displaced nearly 400,000 people

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  • RT @VolcanoAlert: Philippine #volcano spews lava; thousands evacuated - USA TODAY :
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  • RT @airlivenet: PHOTO A plane over #Bardarbunga volcano, Iceland #AFP
  • millions of flower petals erupt from a volcano, covering an entire village 😍 🌸
  • Thousands flee as lava seen on Mount Mayon volcano in Philippines
  • Thousands are being evacuated from an area around an active volcano in the Philippines.
  • RT @BBCNewsAsia: Philippine volcano Mount #Mayon could erupt within weeks, scientists warn
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  • RT @ndtv: Thousands evacuated as Philippine volcano threatens to erupt
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  • Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico β€”
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