New Activity / Highlights
- Taal | Philippines
- Semeru | Indonesia
- Kuchinoerabujima | Japan
- Krakatau | Indonesia
- Shishaldin | United States
- Report for 15 Jan-21 Jan 2020
- Current Eruptions (30 Dec 2019): 43
- Eruptions in 2020 (New/Total): 0 / 0
- Eruptions in 2019 (New/Total): 28 / 73
- Eruptions Avg 2010-2019 (N/T): 35 / 78
The Volcanoes of the World database is a catalog of Holocene and Pleistocene volcanoes, and eruptions from the past 10,000 years.
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Site & Database News
30 December 2019 Database updated (4.8.5). General updates to volcano data. Current eruptions updated through 30 December 2019. Updated captions for 850 volcano photo gallery images.
19 November 2019 Database updated (4.8.4). General updates to volcano data, including the addition of three Icelandic volcanoes to the Holocene list split off from larger systems. Current eruptions updated through 1 November 2019.
18 September 2019 Database updated (4.8.3). General updates to volcano data. Current eruptions updated through 13 September 2019.
6 August 2019 Database updated (4.8.2). General updates to volcano data.
E3 Web Application
The "Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions" web application (or "E3") is a time-lapse animation of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes since 1960. It also shows volcanic gas emissions (sulfur dioxide, SO2) since 1978 — the first year satellites were available to provide global monitoring of SO2.
Who We Are
The mission of GVP is to document, understand, and disseminate information about global volcanic activity.
