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Soufriere Hills: A Deep Dive into the Volcano That Buried a Capital
After centuries of silence, Soufriere Hills woke in 1995, and its collapsing lava dome eventually buried Montserrat's capital, Plymouth, under ash and rock.
Tongariro and Ngauruhoe: A Deep Dive into New Zealand's Sacred Volcanic Heart
Sacred to the Maori and crowned by the brilliant Red Crater, Tongariro and its cone Ngauruhoe anchor a dual World Heritage site and a world-famous day hike.
Mount Ruapehu: A Deep Dive into New Zealand's Crater-Lake Volcano
New Zealand's largest active volcano hides a warm, acidic crater lake whose lahars caused the country's deadliest railway disaster in 1953.
Mount Taranaki: A Deep Dive into New Zealand's Sacred Cone
So flawlessly symmetrical it stood in for Mount Fuji on film, Taranaki is a Maori ancestor and a dormant cone geologists expect to erupt again.
Read more →Calbuco: A Deep Dive into the Volcano That Erupted Without Warning
After more than four decades of silence, Calbuco gave almost no warning in 2015 before hurling ash columns over Chile's Lake District in jaw-dropping images.
Read more →Osorno: A Deep Dive into Chile's Perfect Cone
Chile's postcard cone, so like Mount Fuji it draws cameras from across South America, hides an active volcano with a real history of serious eruptions.
Read more →Galeras: A Deep Dive into Colombia's Restless Decade Volcano
Looming over Pasto and its hundreds of thousands of residents, Galeras is a Decade Volcano whose 1993 eruption killed scientists at work inside its crater.
Read more →Lascar: A Deep Dive into the Atacama's Most Active Volcano
From the parched Atacama, Lascar's 1993 eruption flung ash clear across the Andes to the Atlantic coast, the most active volcano in the driest of deserts.
Read more →Sabancaya: A Deep Dive into Peru's Restless Andean Volcano
Near Arequipa, Sabancaya has stayed in near-constant eruption for years, lofting ash and gas above Peru's canyon country day after day.
Read more →Ubinas: A Deep Dive into Peru's Most Active Volcano
Peru's most active volcano keeps erupting ash over the farming valleys below, forcing repeated evacuations and ruining crops and livestock around Ubinas.
Read more →El Misti: A Deep Dive into the Volcano Above Arequipa
El Misti's graceful cone rises straight above Arequipa, a city of roughly a million people, making it one of Peru's most dangerous volcanoes.
Read more →Avachinsky: A Deep Dive into Kamchatka's Home Volcano
Kamchatka's residents call Avachinsky a home volcano because it looms right behind Petropavlovsk, their largest city, active and watched every single day.
Read more →Tolbachik: A Deep Dive into Kamchatka's Basaltic Fissure Volcano
Amid Kamchatka's explosive cones, Tolbachik erupts fluid basalt like Hawaii, its fumaroles harbouring rare minerals found almost nowhere else on Earth.
Read more →Bezymianny: A Deep Dive into the Volcano That Redefined Eruptions
Long dismissed as extinct, the volcano whose name means nameless erupted sideways in 1956, a directed blast that later explained Mount St. Helens.
Read more →Shiveluch: A Deep Dive into Kamchatka's Restless Dome Volcano
One of Kamchatka's biggest volcanoes, Shiveluch grows a restless lava dome and throws powerful explosions that threaten North Pacific flight paths.
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