I have a school report and I need accurate answers fast.  I don't really need ALL of the eruptions,  but I do need at least some.  These are all of the details I already have:\n-The most recent eruption was in 1944\n-Most of the eruptions have been VERY devastating\n-It is still active\n********Even thogh this might seem like enough information, IT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR A REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALLY NEED A LIST OF ALL OR MOST OF THE ERUPTIONS!!!!!! PPLLEEAASSEE!!!!
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Go to wikipedia.com and search for Mount Vesuvius. You should find what you need.
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enchanted learning states "There are many types of volcanoes: \nShield Volcano - A gently-sloping volcano that emits mostly basaltic lava (very fluid lava) that flows in long-lasting, relatively gentle eruptions - explosions are minimal. Shield volcanoes can be very big. An example is Mt. Kilauea (in Hawaii, USA). \nComposite or Strato Volcano - A steep-coned volcano that explosively emits gases, ash, pumice, and a small amount of stiff, silica lava (called rhyolite). This type of volcano can have eruptions accompanied by lahars -- deadly mudflows. Most volcanoes on Earth are of this type. Stratovolcanoes kill more people than any other type of volcanoes - this is because of their abundance on Earth and their powerful mudflows. Examples are Krakatoa in Indonesia, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines, and Mt. St. Helens in Washington state, USA. \nLava Dome - A bulbous (rounded) volcano that forms when very viscous lava barely flows. An example is Mont Pelée in Martinique. \nCinder Cone - A cone-shaped volcano whose steep sides are formed by loose, fragmented cinders that fall to the Earth close to the vent. The lava flows through a single vent that is usually only up to about 1,000 feet tall. There is usually a bowl-shaped crater at the top. As the gas-filled lava erupts into the air, the lava fragments into pieces and forms cinders. \nRhyolite Caldera Complex - these are the most explosive volcanoes. They do not look like common volcanoes -- after an eruption, the result is a caldera (crater) caused when the area around the vent collapses. Examples are Yellowstone in Wyoming, USA and Lake Taupo in New Zealand (which erupted around A.D. 80). \n more information can be found at http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/VOLCANO/TYPES.html \n and\nhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/VolcanoTypes/volcano_types_quick_reference.html
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It's been a few years since I was in school, but I did an ant farm one year, an experiment with plants one year (music vs fertilizer vs plain old sunlight & water), the erupting volcano was always popular....\n\nGood Luck!
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The last time I read anything about volcanos on Earth's Moon they were the result of internal melting caused by meteor strikes. Dispite the apparent smallness of the Moon as seen from Earth it is a very large object and has been refered to as Earth's "dead" twin.  \nFor a Volcano to affect the orbit of any object, moon or planet, it would have to be very big.  The largest known volcano in our solor system is Olympus Mons on Mars.  It has apparently erupted with enough violence in the past to eject rock into space. At least that is the theory proposed by those who believe they have found pieses of Martian Ejecta on the South Pole of Earth. That didn't do anything to the orbit of Mars. Moons and planets have so much mass that jogging them from their orbits would take more energy than even a Volcano could muster I think.\n\nAs for how the eruptions would behave with no atmosphere, there would be no wind to blow the ejecta away from the point of origin so the ejected particals would just continue on in thier original trajectory until the gravity of the moon in question was able to pull them back down. I'd guess that this would make the 'cone' of the volcano be fairly even. The gases from the eruption that were not trapped inside the more quickly cooled molten rock would escape into space.\n\nSorry about any mis-spelling. I couldn't get the spell check to work.
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Volcanoes can put large amounts of volcanic ash\ninto the atmosphere.  This shades the earth,\nreducing the energy input from sunlight and thus\ncauses cooling.  The eruption of the volcano\nKrakatau in Indonesia in 1883 cooled the earth\nslightly.  The Tambora eruption, also in Indonesia,\nin 1815 produced so much ash that the following\nyear was known as the year without a summer.\nThere were very late frosts in Europe and other\ntemperate regions, crop failures and famine.  Such\neruptions can occur anytime, but fortunately are\nrare.
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Since 1996 there hasn't been any deadly Volcano Eruptions registered.\nHowever, before that there been many fatal ones.\n\nDeaths Volcano When Major Cause of Death \n92,000 Tambora, Indonesia 1815 Starvation \n36,417 Krakatau, Indonesia 1883 Tsunami \n29,025 Mt. Pelee, Martinique 1902 Ash flows \n25,000 Ruiz, Colombia 1985 Mudflows \n14,300 Unzen, Japan 1792 Volcano collapse, tsunami \n9,350 Laki, Iceland 1783 Starvation \n5,110 Kelut, Indonesia 1919 Mudflows \n4,011 Galunggung, Indonesia 1882 Mudflows \n3,500 Vesuvius, Italy 1631 Mudflows, lava flows \n3,360 Vesuvius, Italy 79  Ash flows and falls  \n2,957 Papandayan, Indonesia 1772 Ash flows \n2,942 Lamington, Papua N.G. 1951 Ash flows \n2,000 El Chichon, Mexico 1982 Ash flows \n1,680 Soufriere, St Vincent 1902 Ash flows  \n1,475 Oshima, Japan 1741 Tsunami \n1,377 Asama, Japan 1783 Ash flows, mudflows \n1,335 Taal, Philippines 1911 Ash flows \n1,200 Mayon, Philippines 1814 Mudflows \n1,184 Agung, Indonesia 1963 Ash flows \n1,000 Cotopaxi, Ecuador 1877 Mudflows \n800 Pinatubo, Philippines 1991 Roof collapses and disease \n700 Komagatake, Japan 1640 Tsunami \n700 Ruiz, Colombia 1845 Mudflows \n500 Hibok-Hibok, Philippines 1951 Ash flows
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Mt. Etna's eruptions, while obscuring visibility in the area surrounding the volcano, were captured by cameras on board the Terra and SeaWiFs satellites in recent days.\n\nThe eruption opened six vents in the mountain, releasing a cloud of ash stretching southeastward over the Mediterranean Sea, though the volatile mountain's lava flows have appeared to slowed.\n\nA new fissure cracked open at a height of 2,700 yards (2,470 meters) on the eastern side of the volcano, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, weakening the main lava flow that threatened the village of Nicolosi, a community of 5,000 people. \n\nThe magma pouring out of the new fissure, one of a half-dozen that have burst open on the almost 11,000-foot (3,350-meter) mountain, was heading toward the uninhabited Valle del Bove valley. \n\n"There are very slight signals that the eruption activity is diminishing. I am cautiously optimistic,'' said Alberto Di Pace, prefect of Catania, a city at the base of the volcano. \n\nBut experts say the volcano is highly unpredictable, making it extremely difficult to tell whether the eruptions will stop soon. In the past 20 days there have been more than 2,500 tremors under the mountain, with no signs of any let-up. \n\nCatania's international airport, which was shut for a second time on Monday as thick layers of volcanic ash covered the runway, was re-opened at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday. \n\nFor a week, Europe's most active volcano has been billowing huge clouds of smoke and black ash, and spitting rivers of lava, leading the government to declare a state of emergency. \n\nThe lava flow approaching Nicolosi has almost stopped as it pools in a shallow basin some 2.5 miles above the village. \n\nOn Sunday, the community organized a religious procession to pray that the flow be diverted or stopped. \n\nLegend has it that in 1886 the local archbishop managed to divert a wave of boiling magma descending on the village by brandishing before it a statue of Saint Anthony. \n\nThe magma has already damaged ski lifts dotting the volcano's slopes and civil protection teams were trying to save the ones left intact. \n\nMount Etna is a popular winter resort, but tourism officials say snow is unlikely to settle this winter because of the extreme heat of the lava. \n\nThe last time Etna posed a threat was in 1992 when lava streams headed toward Zafferana, a town of 7,000 people on Etna's lower slopes. The Italian military had to use controlled explosions to divert the flow.
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The "Ring of Fire" is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia, north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and south along the coast of North and South America. It is composed over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.\n\nThis huge ring of volcanic and seismic (earthquake) activity was noticed and described before the invention of the theory of plate tectonics theory. We now know that the Ring of Fire is located at the borders of the Pacific Plate and other major tectonic plates.\n\nPlates are like giant rafts of the earth's surface which often slide next to, collide with, and are forced underneath other plates.\n\nAround the Ring of Fire, the Pacific Plate is colliding with and sliding underneath other plates. This process is known as subduction and the volcanically and seismically active area nearby is known as a subduction zone. There is a tremendous amount of energy created by these plates and they easily melt rock into magma, which rises to the surface as lava and forms volcanoes.\nVolcanoes are temporary features on the earth's surface and there are currently about 1500 active volcanoes in the world. About ten percent of these are located in the United States.\n\nThis is a listing of major volcanic areas in the Ring of Fire:\n\n1. In South America the Nazca plate is colliding with the South American plate. This has created the Andes and volcanoes such as Cotopaxi and Azul.\n\n2. In Central America, the tiny Cocos plate is crashing into the North American plate and is therefore responsible for the Mexican volcanoes of Popocatepetl and Paricutun (which rose up from a cornfield in 1943 and became a instant mountains).\n\n3. Between Northern California and British Columbia, the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda plates have built the Cascades and the infamous Mount Saint Helens, which erupted in 1980.\n\n4. Alaska's Aleutian Islands are growing as the Pacific plate hits the North American plate. The deep Aleutian Trench has been created at the subduction zone with a maximum depth of 25,194 feet (7679 meters).\n\n5. From Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan, the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Eurasian plate is responsible for Japanese islands and volcanoes (such as Mt. Fuji).\n\n6. The final section of the Ring of Fire exists where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate and has created volcanoes in the New Guinea and Micronesian areas. Near New Zealand, the Pacific Plate slides under the Indo-Australian plate.
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The answer is: D. Volcanoes that have large amounts of silica\n\nHere is the reason why it is D:\n\nMagma that contains high amounts of silica is very viscous. That means it is very thick. Because of its thickness, gases can not escape & will build up behind the magma. When the pressure builds up enough, an explosion occurs. Large chunks of lava rock are thrown from the volcano in all directions. The debris fallout from these types of eruptions is extremely dangerous!\n\nIn 1980, Mt. St. Helens was an explosive composite volcano. Half the mountain was gone in a matter of minutes. The problem with that particular volcano was not the falling rock debris (few people). In fact w/ St. Helens, it was the ash which is small particles of volcanic glass (a.k.a. silica). These minute particles of glass can cut your lungs. Also, people living & camping down below the mountain were caught up in mudflows caused by the melted snowcaps. Also, pyroclastic flows can race down the mountainside at tremendous speeds. Anyone caught in the way would be annihilated.\n\nSea water can cause explosive steam eruptions but this occurs in submarine volcanoes (underwater). No one is around to be in its way.\n\n:)
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it depends when the last eruption was...if the volcano had recently erupted you might find plants starting to sprout,if it erupted a while ago, then the surrounding would be filled with vegetation and many animals.
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I saw that article too:\nhttp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09nov_moonalive.htm?list135591\nPretty neat stuff.  But they say the gas was probably trapped long ago, it doesn't necessarily mean the Moon is still molten or still has volcanoes spewing out magma.
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http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/lardner/chap13.html\n\nhttp://geothermal.marin.org/escrap.html#B4\n\nhttp://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/Chapter5.html\n\nI hope those help a little!  Good luck~
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For a good outline of what happened, see:\nhttp://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~gabi/erth15/lecture09/vesuvius.html\n\nThis appears to give some pretty good information regarding it also:\nhttp://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_storia.htm
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You need to include:\n1. A world map of volcanoes. \n2. Statistics about volcanoes (average number of people died from them, how frequently they erupt and destroy things).\n3. Glossy color pictures of volcanoes.\n4. A scientific basis, such as \n.....a question "why do volcanoes occur?"\n.....specific hypotheses as explanations of natural phenomena (a short guess about why volcanoes erupt before the kid does any research, such as "I thought volcanoes erupted because it was like a big pimple. I wasn't sure, so I decided to research this topic.")\n.....research about why (check the Internet, encyclopedia or library)\n.....a conclusion "volcanoes happen because ..."\n.....and "my hypothesis was wrong. I found that volcanoes are not like pimples. They are more like open arteries, because once they erupt they keep spewing until they go dry."\n5. All the good volcano projects have videos of live volcanoes (use an LCD monitor).
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The article actually states that this is the warmest in over 2000 years or more. The article talks about volcanoes erupting and other phenomenons from 1 AD to about 1850.  This did cause some green house gas because of the release of the different greenhouse gases,but they aren't really comparing what it is happening now to what was going on then. They talk about glaciers melting and the earth heating up. They also talked about humans pumping CO2 into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. There has also been evidence seen that this is the warmest since about 420,000 years ago. This was proven through ice cores drilled in the poles and they were able to measure the CO2 concentration and compare it to today. Maybe next time you should read the entire article.
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Forces brewing deep beneath Yellowstone National Park could be making one of the largest volcanoes on Earth even bigger, a new study reveals. \n\nIn the past decade, part of the volcano has risen nearly five inches, most likely due to a backup of flowing molten rock miles below the planet's crust.\n\nWhile the rise may not be noticeable to the casual hiker, the activity may have cracked the crust in the park's famous Norris Geyser Basin (NGB), leading to the formation of new fumaroles—holes that vent smoke and gas—and the reawakening of some of the area's geysers, including Steamboat, the largest geyser in the world.\n\nYellowstone last erupted about 640,000 years ago, spewing 240 cubic miles of material. Despite the newly discovered activity, researchers don't expect it to erupt any time soon. Eventually, however, it could explode again as a super-volcano that would destroy life for hundreds of miles around and coat the entire country in ash.\n\nRadar observations from the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite reveal that the jellybean-shaped Yellowstone caldera—a giant depression caused by past volcanic explosions—began to rise in 1995. \n\nAlthough the caldera floor started to sink in late 1997, part of the north rim, called the north rim uplift anomaly (NUA) continued rising until 2003.\n\nMolten rock called magma rises from the Earth's core under Sour Creek dome, a major feature in the eastern section of the caldera. When the magma reaches the mantle layer, six to 12 miles below the surface, it spreads like a pancake before branching off into several tunnels.\n\nMagma flow is controlled by natural valves—one at Sour Creek dome that lets magma enter the system, and others that allow it to flow out. The outflow valve below the north rim uplift anomaly, however, can only pass so much magma at once. \n\n"Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system," USGS research geophysicist Charles Wicks told LiveScience. "But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise."\n\nThe pulses might be more than the outflow valve can handle—like trying to squeeze all the toothpaste out of the tube at once. As the molten material pushes out on the surrounding rock, the ground around the valve expands and cracks. \n\nThis could explain why the uplift anomaly has risen and the Norris Geyser Basin has become more active, Wicks said. Another explanation is that nearby geothermic changes and seismic activity altered the shape of the valve, perhaps narrowing it. However, previous studies have indicated that no such alterations have occurred, and that changes in flow rate more likely cause these deformations.\n\nThe five-inch increase at the uplift anomaly probably wasn't noticed by many tourists, but the changes in the Norris Geyser Basin were easily spotted by some. After a nine year period of inactivity, Steamboat Geyser erupted in May, 2000, and has erupted five times since. Reaching more than 300 feet in the air, Steamboat produces the highest plumes of any geyser in the world.\n\nSince 1989, Pork Chop geyser was active only as a hot spring, but in the summer of 2003 it reawakened as a geyser. Also that summer, several footpaths near the Norris Geyser Basin were closed because of near-boiling ground temperatures.\n\nAnd a 250-foot line of new fumaroles, holes venting hot smoke and gases, formed near Nymph Lake to the north of the uplift anomaly. \n\n"But when the [uplift anomaly] quit inflating in 2002 and 2003, the thermal unrest died off too," Wicks said. "So we think there's pretty good evidence for tying these events together."\n\nDespite these changes, Wicks doesn't believe that Yellowstone is ready to erupt.\n\n"This is probably an ongoing feature in Yellowstone. We've only been able to study it like this for 10 years, so we're still not sure what's normal and what&
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I believe the most recent volcano - is 14 November 2006 at Home Reef, Tonga Island, Tonga.\n\nPumice rafts originally reported to have been from Metis Shoal are now confirmed to have originated from an island-building eruption of the submarine Home Reef volcano. On 12 August, possibly four days after the beginning of the eruption, a sailor spotted the new island after encountering pumice rafts the previous day. The encounter was written in an on-line journal that described the island as four-peaked. A central crater produced steam plumes and occasional bursts of tephra. Data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite showed that sulfur dioxide emissions from the Home Reef area began on 8 August, peaked during 8-9 August, and ceased on 15 August. Based on ASTER satellite imagery from 4 October, the island was an estimated 1 km long with an area of 0.23 square km. The temperature of a small lake on the island was 64.7?C. The island was 0.15 square km, based on ASTER imagery from 12 October. Geologic Summary: Home Reef, a submarine volcano midway between Metis Shoal and Late Island in the central Tonga islands, was first reported active in the mid-19th century, when an ephemeral island formed. An eruption in 1984 produced a 12-km-high eruption plume, copious amounts of floating pumice, and an ephemeral island 500 x 1500 m wide, with cliffs 30-50 m high that enclosed a water-filled crater. \n\nI hope the above is the right answer you are looking for.