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A near-perfect cone rises above the fields at Mayon. Stromboli sends glowing fragments into the night above the sea. These photographs show what gives a volcano away, from a summit crater or a field of lava to the quiet outline of a mountain people see every day.

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Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji: The setting sun catches the snowy summit of Japan’s Mount Fuji. The volcano’s last eruption began in 1707. Its…
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Mayon
Mayon: An ash cloud rolls down the flank of Mayon during the January 2018 eruption. Even beneath the ash, the profile shows…
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Mount Bromo
Mount Bromo: Steam rises from Bromo’s low, open crater in the center-left of this sunrise view in East Java. The dark cone…
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Stromboli
Stromboli: Glowing fragments trace arcs over the crater of this volcanic island north of Sicily. The long exposure records…
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Kīlauea
Kīlauea: An aerial view shows molten lava covering part of Halemaʻumaʻu crater during the June 2023 summit eruption. The…
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Mount Etna
Mount Etna: A lava fountain lights one of Etna’s summit vents in May 2021. The glow outlines older deposits on the sides of…
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Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier: Snow and glaciers mantle this Washington stratovolcano, seen above the meadows at Paradise. Streams can…
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Villarrica
Villarrica: From Pucón, the snow-covered cone of Villarrica rises beyond the shore. The Chilean stratovolcano has…
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Eyjafjallajökull
Eyjafjallajökull: On April 17, 2010, a broad ash cloud rose above the ice-covered summit of Eyjafjallajökull in southern…
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Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens: An ash column towers above Mount St. Helens in Washington on May 18, 1980. A landslide stripped away the…
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Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo: The lake at Mount Pinatubo fills a caldera formed during the Philippines’ massive 1991 eruption. The steep…
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Yellowstone Caldera
Yellowstone Caldera: From the Washburn Range, the caldera stretches toward the Red Mountains at upper right. The near rim…
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Anak Krakatau
Anak Krakatau rises in the foreground, with the older island of Rakata behind it. The cone grew within the caldera left by…
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Popocatépetl
Popocatépetl: A small plume rises from Mexico’s Popocatépetl in this view from Paso de Cortés. The high, steep-sided…
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Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai
Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai: This 2017 photograph from the summit rim looks down into a crater lake on an island formed by…
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Parícutin
Parícutin: A 1943 photograph catches glowing fragments falling down the flanks of Parícutin in Mexico. The cinder cone…
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Vesuvius
Vesuvius: The double-peaked outline across Naples’s harbor is the Somma-Vesuvius complex. The younger cone grew inside the…
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Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa: Glowing fountains line a fissure on the northeast rift zone of Mauna Loa in November 2022. The broad surface…
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Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi: Clouds part around the glacier-covered cone of Ecuador’s Cotopaxi. The high stratovolcano towers over the plains…
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Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora: Astronauts photographed the deep, round caldera atop Tambora on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island. The summit…
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Mount Merapi
Mount Merapi: Vegetation covers the lower slopes of Merapi in this view from Umbulharjo in Central Java. The steep summit…

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