Unit 8 Specific Volcanoes

Eldfell

Erupted on a small island, called Heimaey, south of Iceland.

Eldfell

Lava flows threatened to close off harbor. People fought lava by spraying cold water on it.

Kilauea

A shield volcano in Hawaii that is the most active in the world. Has been erupting constantly since 1983.

Krakatoa

Composite volcano in Indonesia. Produced loudest noise heard by man.

Krakatoa

Caused tsunami that killed 23,000, 1883

Lake Nyos

In Cameroon, where CO2 cloud was released in a limnic eruption (lake overturn) and suffocated about 1700-1800 people in 1986

Mauna Kea

tallest mountain when measured from base to peak. Is a shield volcano in Hawaii.

Mt. Pelee

Composite cone , Martinique, Erupted in 1902,

Mt. Pelee

killed 30,000 in the town of St. Pierre by Pyroclastic flow, one survived in jail cell

Mt. St. Helens

the large volcano in the Cascades that erupted on May 18, 1980 (Composite cone)

Mt. St. Helens

killed Harry Truman in a lahar

Mt. Tambora

A composite volcano in Indonesia that killed 80,000 people by starvation during the year without a summer.

Olympus Mons

largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars. Is a shield volcano that grew so large because Mars has no plate tectonics to move it off the hotspot that formed it.

Paricutin

A cinder cone in Mexico that erupted in Dionisio Pulido's cornfield. After 12 years of on and off pyroclastic explosions and continuous lava flow from base vents, 1943

Mount Nyiragongo

Fastest lava in the world