Volcanos In the News
(using the Google Maps API)

• Grimsvotn

  Eruption of Grímsvötn volcano, begins 21 May 2011 Icelandic volcano eruption closes airport Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled all domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam high into the sky. (May 22) (The Associated Press)

• Karangetang - Indonesian Volcano Erupts, Sends Lava and Gas - Indonesia volcano erupts, spews lava and gas (yahoo news)
• EYJAFJOLL - Volcano continues to ground flights as ash cloud spreads over Europe

  Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano is still pumping ash into the sky, with disruptions to European air traffic expected to carry on into next week. Photograph: Jon Gustafsson/AP

• Mayon - 30,000 flee Philippine volcano
• Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai - Underwater volcano creates new island off Tonga - New Island - photos of the eruption

  Ash rising into the air from an undersea volcanic eruption, part of the uninhabited islet of Hunga Ha'apai, 63 kilometres northwest of the Tongan capital Nuku'alofa Photograph: Telusa Fotu/AFP/Getty Images

• Redoubt - USGS eruption risk from alaska volcano rising - Alaska volcano has geologists on alert - Redoubt Volcano to Anchorage - Alaskans don masks as once-sleepy volcano spews ash
• Galeras - Thousands flee volcanic eruption in Colombia
• Llaima - Volcano erupts in southern Chile, 700 people evacuated - Dozens of Chileans flee due to volcano eruption

  Llaima Volcano, Chile Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008.

• Tavurvur is a stratovolcano in Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the eastern rim of the larger feature. - Volcano erupts on island - Islanders defy volcano and return to homes
• Piton de la Fournaise Reunion Island
• Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador - Volcano in Ecuador Erupts; 1 Person Dead - CNN: Pressure building up inside Ecuador volcano

  Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador August 16, 2006.

• Mayon Volcano, Phillipines - San Diego Union Tribune article

  Mayon Volcano, Phillipines August 7, 2006.

• Piton de la Fournaise, Reunion Island
• Cleveland Volcano, Alaska - Image from the International Space Station
• Bezymyanny, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia - more information - KVERT info - Press Release 05/09/06 - Press Release 5/10/06
• Merapi, Indonesia - more information

  Merapi, Java, Indonesia Photo by Jack Lockwood, U.S. Geological Survey, September 6, 1982.

• Lascar, Chile
• Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania
  • OL DOINYO LENGAI, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD (Frank Benton)
  • more info
  • National Geographic article
  • Stromboli On Line's pages about Lengai

  Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania Photo by Gordon Davies, 1966 (courtesy of Celia Nyamweru, Kenyatta University)

• Poas, Costa Rica
  • More information and photos of activity at Poas Volcano
• Raoul Island, Kermadec Is
• Augustine, Alaska
  • Photos from the Alaska Volcano Observatory

  Augustine, Alaska Image taken by Game McGimsey, AVO/USGS, March 22, 2006

• St. Helens, Washington