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Bookmark or Share- Interactive Map of Active Volcanoes and recent Earthquakes ...Notes: The status colors of volcanoes are our subjective interpretation of activity status (unrest, alert, erupting, major eruption) and have no official significance, although we try to keep them in agreement with various existing official color and alert codes.
- How many active volcanoes are there on Earth?There are about 1,350 potentially active volcanoes worldwide, aside from the continuous belts of volcanoes on the ocean floor at spreading centers like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. About 500 of those 1,350 volcanoes have erupted in historical time.
- List of the world's major volcanoes | Locations & FactsThere are more than 1,500 potentially active volcanoes or volcanic areas around the world at any given time. They may be the world’s most dynamic landforms, given their ability to grow by accretion or shatter and collapse during an eruption.
- Volcano facts and information - National GeographicVolcanoes are Earth's geologic architects. They've created more than 80 percent of our planet's surface, laying the foundation that has allowed life to thrive. Their explosive force...
- Volcano - WikipediaA volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. The process that forms volcanoes is called volcanism.
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