Intermittently active, the Santa Maria Volcano released a plume in mid-January 2007.
Published Feb 4, 2007
Plumes streaming from this mountain in Guatemala are usually related to volcanic activity. But in March 2018, a wildfire burned on its slopes.
Published Mar 23, 2018
A volcanic plume rises above Japan’s Shinmoe-dake Volcano, while a lava dome grows within its summit crater.
Published Feb 4, 2011
Evidence of four types of volcanic activity at Mexico’s Colima Volcano.
Published Jan 25, 2011
Located approximately 50 kilometers northeast of Tehran, Mt. Damavand is an impressive stratovolcano that reaches 5,670 meters (18,598 feet) in elevation. Part of the Alborz Mountain Range that borders the Caspian Sea to the north, Damavand is a young volcano that has formed mostly during the Holocene Epoch (over approximately the last 10,000 years). The western flank of the volcano includes solidified lava flows with flow levees—“walls” formed as the side edges of flowing lava cooled rapidly, forming a chute that channeled the hotter, interior lava. Two such flows with well-defined levees are highlighted by snow on the mountainside.
Published Feb 21, 2005
