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NCEI/WDS Natural Hazards Image Database recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Photographs and other visual media provide valuable pre- and post-event data for natural hazards. Research, mitigation, and forecasting rely on visual data for post-... -
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NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Volcanic Ash: Detection and Height (VAA) recent views
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The Volcanic Ash: Detection and Height product contains two images with pixel values identifying volcanic ash cloud height and volcanic ash mass loading. The ash... -
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Kilauea, USA Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
The basaltic shield volcano on the Island of Hawaii is among the most extensively studied volcanoes in the world. The volcano, with its summit caldera, is located on... -
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Soufriere St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Volcano Images recent views
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This volcano is located on St. Vincent in the West Indies. It has a lake in its crater. Born in 1718, the volcano has had seven eruptions including violent eruptions... -
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Sicily, Italy Images recent views
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This transitional shield-to-stratovolcano in northeastern Sicily has released lava flows more than 150 times since activity was first recorded in 1500 B.C. -
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Kirishima, Japan Images recent views
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The shield volcano consists of more than 20 eruptive centers over a 20 x 30 km area that also includes Japan's first national park. Sixty-nine eruptions have been... -
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Irazu, Costa Rica Images recent views
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Located 25 km from San Jose, Irazu is the highest volcano in Costa Rica and also has the country's earliest historic eruption (1772). -
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Cerro Negro, Nicaragua Images recent views
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This cinder cone in western Nicaragua has a name that means "black hill." It has erupted more than 20 times since its birth in 1850. Explosive eruptions from the... -
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La Soufriere, Guadeloupe Images recent views
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La Soufriere is a stratovolcano with a summit dome, on the southern part of Guadeloupe Island. It has erupted explosively about ten times since 1400. -
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May 2010 Pacaya, Guatemala Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
A television reporter was killed by a shower of burning rocks when he got too close to the volcano, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Guatemala City. On 29 May,... -
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June 1991 Pinatubo, Philippines Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Mount Pinatubo is an andesitic island arc volcano, located on the southwestern part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Prior to 1991, it had been dormant for... -
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May 1980 Mount Saint Helens, USA Images recent views
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An earthquake occurred at 15 32 UT, only seconds before the explosion that began the eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano. This eruption and blast blew off the top of... -
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Izalco, El Salvador Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Izalco is a young stratovolcano on the south flank of Santa Ana Volcano in western El Salvador. Its continuous small explosive eruptions (beginning in 1770) caused it... -
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June 1992 Mount Spurr, USA Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Following 39 years of inactivity, Crater Peak vent on the south flank of Mount Spurr volcano burst into eruption at 7:04 a.m. Alaska daylight time (ADT) on June 27,... -
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Barcena, Mexico Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
Barcena is on San Benedicto Island, which lies off the coast of Mexico, south of Baja California and west of Mexico City. -
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Lamington, Papua New Guinea Images recent views
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce —
This dormant stratovolcano in Papua New Guinea suddenly exploded in 1951. Nuees ardentes (glowing avalanches) shot down the mountain at 100 km per hour, devastated...
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