Volcanoes

Marc Serrano Alcalà & Daniel González Hernández

VOLCANOES

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ANDES

PINATUBO

MOUNT ONTAKE

TEIDE

KILIMANJARO

ETNA

The Andes mountain range occupies the western part of South America, bordering its entire coast on the Pacific Ocean. It has a length of 8,500 kilometers, making it the longest continental mountain range on Earth.1​ It is born in the extreme south, in Tierra del Fuego, crossing the territories of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and the western Venezuela.

Etna, also known locally as "Mungibeddu"is a volcano on the east coast of Sicily, between the provinces of Messina and Catania. It is the largest active volcano in Europe and the highest mountain in Italy (3,357 meters) outside the Alps. During a six-month period in 2021, Etna erupted so much volcanic material that its height increased by approximately 100 m, and the southeast crater is now the highest part of the volcano.

Pinatubo is an active volcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, between the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga. Before 1991, the mountain suffered from a strong erosion process. After more than a million years of inactivity, the first eruptions occurred. From about the year 1000 there was no further eruption until 1991.

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, and it is of volcanic origin. It is located in Tanzania, on the border with Kenya, very close to the equator line. Its height was measured in 1952, using optical topography methods, making vertical triangulations but at very long distances and gave the result of 5,864m.

Mount Ontake is a volcano located on the island of Honshu, on the border between Nagano and Gifu prefectures, Japan,1 about 100 km northeast of Nagoya and about 200 kilometers west of Tokyo. It is the second highest volcano in Japan, with a maximum height of 3,067 meters above sea level, only surpassed by Fuji's 3,776 meters.2 It most recently erupted on September 27, 2014.

Teide is a volcano located on the Spanish island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands archipelago. It has an official altitude of 3,715 meters above sea level and 7,500 meters above the ocean floor, being the highest peak in Spain, that of any land emerging from the Atlantic Ocean and the third largest volcano on Earth from its base in the ocean floor, after Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, both in Hawaii. The altitude of Teide also makes the island of Tenerife the tenth highest island in the world. Its last eruption corresponds to the black lavas that cover the cone, and has been dated between the 7th and 10th centuries AD. c.