Top 10 Most Dangerous Volcanoes in the World

Here’s a list of Top 10 Story of most dangerous volcanoes in the world. In every countries, there must be a volcanoes such in Indonesia, there are many volcanoes that’s located in the big cities such as West Java, Central Java or East Java. Volcanic eruption is one of the most horrific disaster, it could occurs the deaths of hundreds or even thousands, still remind you of terrifying eruption of Krakatoa volcano that occurred in 1883, which caused massive damage and casualties in the thousands. Here’s a list of the most dangerous volcanoes that’s located in many countries in the world.

10. Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii
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Mauna Loa is one of the five mountains that form the Island of Hawaii. Though Mauna Loa is not the highest mountain, but the erupt is the most dangerous, this is because the content of this mountain lava consists lot of fluid that can cause serious fires. Mauna Loa is the largest volcano in the world (volume and area), with the volume of lava reaches approximately 18,000 cubic miles. The mountain last erupted on April 15, 1984.

9. Taal Volcano, Philippines
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Taal Volcano is located about 50 km (31 mile) from the capital, Manila. This mountain consists of an island in Lake Taal, which is located inside the caldera formed by very strong previous eruptions (the process is similar to lake Toba). Taal Volcano is a volcanic complex on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. This volcano has erupted hard several times, carrying one of the most powerful eruption that killed more than a thousand souls.

8. Ulawun Volcano, Papua New Guinea

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The ulawun volcano is located in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck arc, and is one of the most active volcanoes in Papua New Guinea and one of the most dangerous. The mountain erupted several times has been recorded, one of the strongest eruption was in 1980, where Ulawun out ash up to 60 000 feet tall and produce pyroclastic flows that swept all sides of the mountain.

7. Nyiragongo Volcano, Congo
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Since 1882, he has erupted at least 34 times. One of the worst eruption was on the stairs 17 September 2002, when the lava flowed down the slopes of Nyiragongo to cover approximately 40% of the city of Goma and caused nearly 120 000 people homeless. The nyiragongo is one of the most active volcano in Africa, this mountain is always revealing activity significantly.

6. Merapi Volcano, Indonesia
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Mount Merapi is a conical volcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Most of the Merapi eruption involving the collapse of the lava dome continues to flow beneath ka, and sometimes often accompanied by come down of the hot smoke (wedhus trash) that the fast can reach 120 km per hour. This is the most active volcanoes in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. This mountain has been active since 10 000 years ago.

5. Galeras Volcano, Colombia
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This mountain is the most active volcano in Colombia. This mountain has been erupting almost every year since 2000. This is dangerous because the unexpected eruption frequency. Galeras volcano has been active for at least a million years. Located near the southern Colombian border with Ecuador. This could lead to eruption of hot lava to 3.5 km come down to the slopes of Mount Galeras. The last eruption was on January 3, 2010, and forced the government to evacuate 8,000 people.

4. Sakurajima Volcano, Japan
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Sakurajima is one of the most active volcanoes in Japan, the mountain is located on Kyushu Island Japan. One of a terrible eruption occurred on March 10, 2009 where the mountain is throwing rocks and other mountain composition until two miles away. The intensity of the eruptions is one of the highest in Japan and even the world. even the 7300 eruption was recorded in the last 45 years.

3. Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico
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Popocatepetl is an active volcano located at an altitude of 5426 meters above sea level. Even since December 1994 occurred on this mountain dangerous activity continuously, until finally a great eruption occurred in 2000 which is the largest eruption of Mount Popocatepetl in history has ever perpetuated. Existing recorded 20 eruptions since 1519. The explosion was very powerful, because it can release volcanic ash within a radius of a fairly remote.

2. Vesuvius Volcano, Italy
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Mount Vesuvius is a start volcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about nine miles east of Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only volcano in mainland Europe has erupted in the last hundred years. This mountain could erupt at any time, and severity there are about 3 million people who live around the mount of Vesuvius. The mount’s eruption of lava bursts this can lead to very high, even on March 22, 1994, high bursts of lava reaching 1000 meters. Famous for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 years that caused the destruction of Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

1. Yellowstone Super-volcano, United States
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Yellowstone Super-volcano is the most dangerous mount in the world. Yellowstone Super-volcano explosion rocks and composition can shoot up to 1000 kilometers from the mount other cubic. volcanic eruptions of lava and ash this mount enough to threaten the extinction of species and can even become one of the causes of a mass disaster, because once the mountain is erupting, it will cause all the other volcanic activity experienced a major tectonic vibrations and could trigger other explosions.