Brittany Moss
Hour 3
February 18, 2014
Volcano Research
Volcano Etna is in the country Italy. Its region is the Mediterranean and West of Asia.
The sub-region would be Italy. It is Stratovolcanos(es). The latitude and longitude is 37.734 &
15.004. The last known eruption was 2013 CE. The elevation is 3330. The history of the eruption
is that Mount Etna, centerpiece of the national park, is one of the most active volcanos on Earth.
The volcano name is Tair, Jebel at. The country is Yemen. The region for the volcano is
Africa and Red Sea. Sub-region is Africa (northeastern) and Red Sea. It is also a Stratovolcano
just like Volcano Etna. The latitude & longitude is 15.55 & 41.83. Last known eruption was
2008 CE. Elevation for the volcano is 244. History of the volcano is that Jebel al-Tair volcano is
the northernmost active volcano rising above sea level on the rift axis of the south.
Volcano Sharat Kovakab is in the country Syria.
Its region is the Middle East and
Indian Ocean. The sub-region would be Middle East (eastern). The latitude and longitude is
36.53 & 40.85. The last known eruption was listed unknown. The elevation is 534. The history
of the eruption is that Sharat Kovakab is a truncated basaltic cone of Holocene age located in
NW Syria.
The volcano name is Kaikohe-Bay of Islands. The country is New Zealand. The region
for the volcano is the New Zealand to Fiji. The sub-region would be New Zealand. The latitude
and longitude is -35.3 & 173.9. The last known eruption is 400 CE. Elevation for the volcano is
388. The history of the eruption is that it contains about 30 craters and vents, mainly basaltic
cinder cones, small shield volcanoes and lava plateaus.
The volcano name is St. Andrew Strait. The country is Papua New Guinea. The region
for the volcano is the Melanesia and Australia. The sub-region would be Admiralty Islands. The
latitude and longitude is -2.38 & 147.35. The last known eruption is 1957 CE. Elevation for the
volcano is 270. The history of the eruption is that St. Andrew Strait volcano, located in the
Admiralty Islands north of Papua New Guinea and about 45 km SSE of Lorengau on Manus
Island.
The volcano name is Narcondum. The country is Australia. The region for the volcano is
the Indonesia. The sub-region would be Andaman Islands. The latitude & longitude is 13.43 &
94.28. The last known eruption is listed unknown. Elevation for the volcano is 710. The history
of the eruption is that Narcondum island volcano (India) in the Andaman Sea, belongs to a
volcanic arc that continues northward from Sumatra to Burma.
The volcano name is Jolo. The country is Philippines. The region for the volcano is
Philippines and SE Asia. The sub-region would be Mindanao. The latitude & longitude is 6.013
& 124.892. the last known eruption is 1897 CE. Elevation is 811. The history of the eruption is
that Jolo volcano is a group of young cinder cones and explosion craters on the 60-km-wide Jolo
Island located off the Zamboanga Peninsula on SW Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines
190 km NE of Sabah, Malaysia.