New Activity / Highlights
- Tangkubanparahu | Indonesia
- Asamayama | Japan
- Semisopochnoi | United States
- Shishaldin | United States
- Unnamed | Tonga
- Report for 14 Aug-20 Aug 2019
- Current Eruptions (11 Jul 2019): 50
- Eruptions in 2019 (New/Total): 16 / 61
- Eruptions in 2018 (New/Total): 37 / 78
- Eruptions Avg 2009-2018 (N/T): 35 / 78
Recent Bulletin Reports
- Tinakula |
- Piton de la Fournaise |
- Semeru |
- Heard |
- Dukono |
- Rincon de la Vieja |
- Turrialba |
- San Cristobal |
- Semisopochnoi |
- Asosan |
- Nyamuragira |
- Tengger Caldera |
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
6 August 2019 Database updated (4.8.2). General updates to volcano data.
11 July 2019 Database updated (4.8.1). Current eruptions updated through 11 July 2019.
5 July 2019 Added another 800 scanned maps to the website, for a total of 3,728 now available through the volcano profile pages.
27 June 2019 Press Release from Bulletin of Volcanology about renewed activity at Ubinas.
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.
