please can you give me the name of 10 famous volcanoes in the world?

Answer 1

Kilauea, Hawaii
Mount St. Helens, Washington
Vesuvius, Italy
Fuji, Japan
Merapi, Indonesia
Pelee, Caribbean
Arenal, Costa Rica
Stromboli, Italy
Krakatau, Indonesia
Etna, Italy

Answer 2

African:
1 Erta Ale
2 Kilimanjaro
Antartica:
3 Mount Erebus
Bolivia:
4 Illimani
5 Parinacota
Chile:
6 Guallatiri
7 Llaima
8 Villarrica
Colombia:
9 Galeras
10 Nevado del Ruiz
11 Purace

Active volcanoes:
1 Arenal
2 Erta Ale
3 Etna
4 Fernandina
5 Guagua Pichincha
6 Guallatiri
7 Heimaey
8 Hekla
9 Kilauea
10 Krakatau
11 Llaima
12 Mauna Loa
13 Mayon Volcano
14 Mount Erebus
15 Mount Merapi
16 Mount Nasu
17 Mount Pinatubo
18 Pacaya
19 Paricutin

Loads of them. Go to http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/english.html
Lots of good stuff, pictures, threats, types of volacanoe, monitoring, live web cams etc.etc. Really good site.

Answer 3

Ya, boo sucks to the person who said people only look things up on Wiki for things like this - I thought of all these myself (although I did have to look up where they were in some cases (and I could not remember the name of the Montserrat volcano, so had to look that up).

1. Santorini (Greece)
2. Krakatoa (Indonesia)
3. Mount St. Helens (Washington State, USA)
4. Mount Etna (Sicily)
5. Mount Fuji (Japan)
6. Mount Vesuvius (Italy)
7. Kilauea (hawaii)
8. Stromboli (Italy)
9. Soufriere Hills (Montserrat)
10.Edinburgh is built on the plug of a volcano!

Answer 4

Kilauea, Hawaii;
Mount St. Helens, Washington;
Vesuvius, Italy;
Fuji, Japan;
Merapi, Indonesia;
Pelee, Caribbean;
Arenal, Costa Rica;
Stromboli, Italy;
Krakatau, Indonesia;
Etna, Italy;
Katmai, Alaska;
Santa Maria, Guatemala
; Nyiragongo, Congo;
Santorini, Greece;
Ruapehu, New Zealand;
Agung, Indonesia;
Mayon, Philippines;
Sakurajima, Japan;
Mauna Loa, Hawaii;
El Chichon, Mexico;
Ruiz, Colombia;
Popocatepetl, Mexico;
Hekla, Iceland;
Taal, Philippines;
Colima, Mexico;
Lassen Peak, California;
Yellowstone, Wyoming;
White Island, New Zealand;
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea;
Long Valley, California;
Lamington, Papua New Guinea;
Paricutin, Mexico;
Tambora, Indonesia

Answer 5

Earthquakes are most common at the point where the tectonic plates meet each other. There is a lot of shifting, movement and pressure. Take a look at a map of the tectonic plates. It is no coincidence that the most common areas for volcanoes is along these fault lines. One thing that is very interesting also is the tsunami. Remember the big tsunami that struck Indonesia? It was caused by an earthquake under the ocean surface.

Answer 6

Perhaps it would be more interesting if you gave the name and what they were famous for. Vesuvius is in Italy and famously buried the entire roman city of Pompeii, mostly in a layer of ash that then solidified. It is now a tourist attraction, I've been there and its great.
I would include the big volcano that erupted recently and entombed 2 watchers who took refuge in a concrete bunker. They cooked alive, proving once and for all that molten lava is a lot hotter than you can possibly imagine.

Answer 7

* Avachinsky-Koryaksky, Kamchatka, Russia
* Colima, Mexico
* Mount Etna, Italy
* Galeras, Colombia
* Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi, USA
* Merapi, Indonesia
* Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Mount Rainier, Washington, USA
* Sakurajima, Japan
* Santamaria/Santiaguito, Guatemala
* Santorini, Greece
* Taal Volcano, Philippines
* Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
* Ulawun, Papua New Guinea
* Mount Unzen, Japan
* Vesuvius, Italy

Answer 8

Mount St. Helens (Washington State)
Mount Etna (Sicily)
Mount Kilauea (Hawaii)
Mauna Loa (Hawaii)
Izalco (El Salvador)
Askja (Iceland)
Mount Vesuvius (located near Naples, Italy)
Krakatau, between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java

Answer 9

Mount Fuji, Vesuvius, Mount St. Helens, Kilauea and Mauna Loa, and Etna are a few

Answer 10

Lots of people have already given you the names but here's a good site that has ever link you can think of

Hope it helps