Mount Augustine - located within the Cook Inlet at the beginning of the Aleutian Island chain.
Mount
Hood - located in the northwestern corner of Oregon roughly
50 miles to the east-southeast
of Portland, Oregon. Mount Hood is the highest point in Oregon at 11,239
feet.
Kamchatka
Peninsula - the peninsula is located in the eastern part
of Siberia, Russia. There are
some 30 or more volcanoes on the peninsula. The photo is a satellite photo
of the
peninsula pointing out 19 of the volcaoes and the last time they erupted.
Mount Lassen - located in northern California as part of the Cascade Mountain Range.
Mauna
Loa - located on the big island of Hawai'i. Mauna Loa is
considered to be the largest
mountain in the world. The volcano is around 13,680 feet high from sea
level. Since
the Hawaiian Islands extend to the base of the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Loa
is over 30,000
feet in height from the base of the ocean. The picture is taken from Mauna
Kea, which is
actually higher at 13,796 feet, but doesn't extend as far down to the base
of the ocean.
Mount
Pinatubo #1 & Mount Pinatubo #2
- located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
In June 1991, the volcano woke up violently after a 600 year sleep. Both
of these photos
were taken during the eruption.
Mount
Popocatepetl - located about 45 miles to the southeast of
Mexico City, Mexico. Mount
Popocatepetl, or Popo, has been very active as of late. The most recent
eruption occured
on January 2, 1998. If you'd like to find out the current status of the
event go to Volcano
World's Update of Current Activity Page.
Pu'u
O'o Crater #1 & Pu'u O'o Crater #2
- the crater is located a little to the east of the main
crater, Halemaumau, of Kilauea Volcano on the big island of Hawai'i. It
is mainly from this
crater that the current eruption episodes are occuring. The most recent
eruption of Kilauea
has become the longest eruption ever for the volcano. The eruption began
in 1983 and
continues to date along the East Rift Zone of the volcano.
Mount
Rainier - located roughly 100 miles to the southeast of
Seattle, Washington. Mount Rainier is
classified as a dormant, sleeping, volcano, and may one day awaken to the
likes of its
sister to the south, Mount Saint Helens.
Mount
Redoubt #1 & Mount Redoubt #2 -
located next to the Cook Inlet in the Aleutian
Mountain Range about 100 miles to the southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.
Mount Shasta - located in north central California in the Cascade Mountain Range.
Mount
Saint Helens #1, #2, & #3
- located in the southwest corner of Washington as part of the
Cascade Mountain Range. Most remembered for it's 8:32AM eruption on May18,
1980,
when it blasted away almost all of the northern side of the volcano. It
eventually took 67
lives, wildlife, fish, and many thousands of acres of forestland. The lava
dome that developed
in the crater has remained active to this day, with it's most recent activity
occuring in March
1996.
Three
Sisters Volcanoes #1 and #2 - located
in the central Oregon Cascade Mountain Range
about 40 miles west of Bend, Oregon.