Most Amazing Volcanoes

1. This volcano caused massive aviation disruption after an ash cloud rising up to nine kilometres erupted in 2010.In April 2010 the huge Iceland eruption combined with the Northern Lights for this spectacular photograph. .....

Mount St Helens USA

2. In 1980 a series of earthquakes weakened Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington.The massive eruption saw a column of ash rise 24km into the air. Fiftyseven people were killed and billions of dollars worth of damage caused. .....

Puyehue Chile

3. Volcanic lightning is seen over Chiles Puyehue volcano, in June 2011.The cloud of soot that Puyehue belched out darkened skies as far away as Argentina. .....

Mount Etna Sicily

4. The spectacular Mount Etna erupts during a dawn in November 2002. .....

Mayon Philippines

5. In 2009 more than 34,000 people living around the Mayon volcano were evacuated following this eruption. .....

Lascar Chile

6. This huge plume of smoke erupted from the Lascar volcano in April 2006 and reached more than 3,000m into the air. .....

Anak Krakatau Indonesia

7. The Child of Krakatau volcano fires ash and lava into the air during an eruption in November 2007.The Anak Krakatau volcano emerged in 1927 from the caldera that was formed after the massive Krakatau eruption of 1883. .....

Soufriere Hills Montserrat

8. After a long period of dormancy the Soufriere Hills volcano complex sparked back into life in 1995 and has been erupting since. This picture was taken in 2010 and more than half of Montserrat is now uninhabitable. .....

Mount Sinabung Indonesia

9. Star trails are seen in this long exposure photograph as Mount Sinabung spews ash into the air. .....

Manam Volcano Papua New Guinea

10. Star trails are seen in this long exposure photograph as Mount Sinabung spews ash into the air. .....

Tungurahua Ecuador

11. Ash and stones explode into the air during this eruption in May 2010. .....

Pacaya Guatemala

12. People watch the erupting Pacaya volcano in Villa Canales, 50 km south of Guatemala City, in June 2010. .....

Grimsvotn Iceland

13. Thousands of tons of ash mixes with volcanic lightning during an eruption in May 2011. .....

Sinabung Indonesia

14. Hot ash spews into the air and lava flows down the mountain, forcing more than 25,000 people to flee their homes in January 2014. .....

Popocatepetl Mexico

15. This volcano, situated around 80km from Mexico City, fires ash and steam into the air above the city of Puebla in May 2012.Smoke, ash and lava pour from this 5,450m volcano in Mexico forcing a yellow phase two alert, the secondhighest warning on a sevenstep scale. .....

Mount Nyarigongo

16. Steam is seen rising from a crater behind a home along the Lake Kivu shoreline. .....

Mount Gamalama Indonesia

17. Mount Gamalama spews volcanic ash as it erupts on Ternate Island, eastern Indonesia, in July 2012. .....

Mount Tambora Indonesia

18. This volcano, located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesias Komodo national park, erupts during a sunset. .....

Sarychev Japan

19. This incredible view of an eruption in June 2009, was taken by an astronaut on board the International Space Station. .....

Pavlof USA

20. Another International Space Station photograph shows this Alaskan volcano erupting in May 2013, spewing an ash cloud around 6,000m into the air. .....

The Sun Space

21. This image provided by Nasa shows the sun releasing a flare associated with a prominence eruption in 2012. The image was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. .....

Krakatoa

22. When Krakatoa (also spelled Krakatau) blew its top in 1883, it did so with the force of 13,000 atomic bombs. No, really, its true. They heard the Indonesian island go all the way in Australia, and tsunamis, ashes and toxic fumes overtook entire islands nearby. All in all, over 36,000 people lost their lives and whole villages just went away. The shockwave reverberated around the globe, registering on barographs thousands of miles away. The 1883 e .....

Mt Pelee Martinique

23. When Mt. Pelee exploded on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1902, it killed 29,000 people and destroyed the entire city of St. Pierre. The residents had been watching the volcano shoot steam and sulfurous fumes into the air for several days, but on May 8, Pelee finally went in a terrifying display. Witnesses on ships just off its coast described a sudden massive mushroom cloud, filled with fiery hot ash and volcanic gases, consuming the isla .....

Vesuvius Italy

24. When Mt. Vesuvius blew in A.D. 79, it left the entire city of Pompeii frozen in time, buried under a shroud of ash and pumice that rained down for nearly an entire day as the volcano raged. The 25,000 or so people that it buried were preserved for archaeologists to one day study and the volcano itself has now also been extensively studied. Its erupted over a dozen times since the burial of Pompeii, most recently in 1944. Since the area surroundin .....

Santa Maria Volcano

25. The Santa Maria eruption in 1902 was one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century. The violent explosion came after the volcano had sat silent for roughly 500 years, and left a large crater, nearly a mile (1.5 km) across, on the mountains southwest flank.The symmetrical, treecovered volcano is part of a chain of stratovolcanoes that rises along Guatemalas Pacific coastal plain. It has experienced continuous activity since its last blast, a VE .....