It could mean a volcano that erupts regularly but is ... Mount Rainier in Washington is a famous stratovolcano. Shield volcanoes are big, broad volcanoes made up of oozy lava flows that erupt ...

Mount Nyamuragira is a shield volcano, which means it is dome-shaped ... On the other hand, Mount Nyiragongo, a stratovolcano with a steeper cone shape, towers higher at 11,385 feet (3,470 meters ...

There are two main types of volcano - composite and shield. The two types of volcano form in different places and have very different characteristics. Ash released from shield volcanoes often ...

A "ZOMBIE" volcano could be coming back to life after ... Mount Vesuvius, which decimated Pompeii, is the most famous example of a stratovolcano. Satellite and GPS radar show that the area around ...

A Netflix documentary recounts the eruption of an active volcano off the coast of New ... groups were trekking near the rim of an active stratovolcano when the site erupted, spouting scalding ...

Popocatépetl volcano just outside Mexico City has been ... Popocatépetl is a stratovolcano capable of catastrophic, explosive eruptions, the last of which came around the year 800.

But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt. St. Helens-type eruptions. Instead, it emits a steady stream of fluid lava that generally flows gently down the side of the mountain ...

clouds and rain – probably won’t be influenced by the volcano for long, Huey told CNN. Mount Ruang, a 2,400-foot (725-meter) stratovolcano on Ruang Island in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi ...

The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa on Hawaii's Big Island, erupted Sunday for the first time in nearly 40 years, shooting 200-foot-high sprays of lava overhead and sending molten ...

Rumbling sound heard from Ruang Volcano Observatory." The stratovolcano is the southernmost in the Sangihe Island arc, the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program says, and its summit ...