• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

NCEI maintains a database of over 1,500 volcano locations obtained from the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Volcanoes of the World publication. The database includes information...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Over the last several million years the Hawaiian Islands have been built of successive lava flows. They are the most recent additions in a long line of volcanoes that extends up the intersection...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Fewer than one hundred people have been killed by eruptions in the recorded history of Hawaii, and only one death has occurred in the 20th Century. However, the lava flows are highly destructive...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2001-03-23T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Significant Volcanic Eruptions Database is a global listing of over 600 eruptions from 4360 BC to the present. A significant eruption is classified as one that meets at least one of the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The word volcano is used to refer to the opening from which molten rock and gas issue from Earth's interior onto the surface, and also to the cone, hill, or mountain built up around the opening by...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

At dawn on June 15, 1991, a cataclysmic eruption began with a tremendous explosion that destroyed ten deserted villages. This eruption deposited approximately 5 to 7 km3 of volcanic fragments in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Romania, an eastern European country, is severely affected by a variety of natural hazards. These include frequent earthquakes, floods, landslides, soil erosion, and drought all of which have...

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