Volcanoes

Campi Flegrei

The restless caldera on the western edge of Naples, where the ground has risen more than 1.5 meters since 2005

Cotopaxi

Ecuador's near-perfect glaciated cone, among the world's highest active volcanoes

Eyjafjallajokull

The Icelandic volcano whose 2010 ash cloud grounded Europe

Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai

The submarine Tongan volcano whose January 2022 eruption sent the highest plume ever recorded into the mesosphere

Kilauea

Hawaii's shield volcano, among the most active on Earth

Krakatoa

The Indonesian volcano whose 1883 eruption was heard across the world

Lake Toba

The largest volcanic lake on Earth, filling the caldera of the biggest eruption of the past two million years

Mauna Loa

The largest active volcano on Earth, which ended 38 quiet years with a 12-day eruption in 2022

Mount Etna

Europe's tallest and most restless volcano, towering over eastern Sicily

Mount Merapi

Indonesia's most persistently active volcano, looming over the city of Yogyakarta in central Java

Mount Pinatubo

The Philippine volcano whose 1991 eruption cooled the entire planet

Mount St. Helens

The Cascade volcano whose 1980 blast tore off its own summit

Mount Tambora

The Indonesian volcano behind the 1816 Year Without a Summer

Mount Teide

Spain's highest peak, a volcanic giant rising from the Atlantic on Tenerife

Mount Vesuvius

The volcano that buried Pompeii, looming over the Bay of Naples

Nyiragongo

The Congolese volcano cradling one of the world's great lava lakes

Parícutin

The volcano that rose from a Mexican cornfield in 1943 and erupted for nine years

Popocatepetl

Mexico's smoking mountain, a restless giant beside Mexico City

Stromboli

The Mediterranean's lighthouse, erupting almost without pause for millennia

The Yellowstone Caldera

The vast volcanic system beneath Yellowstone National Park, source of three of the largest eruptions known