What are some of the volcanoes that erupted in the last two years?

rocky Isaac Steele

Dear Isaac,

Many of the eruptions of the last year (September 1994 to November 1995) are described in Current Eruptions and Activity in VolcanoWorld. The following volcanoes erupted or showed signs of unrest from November 1993 to September 1994:

November 1993
Long Island, Manam, Langila, and Uluwun (Pupua New Guinea), Atka Island (Aleutian Islands), Pacaya and Santiaguito (Guatemala), Popocatepetl (Mexico), Veniaminof (Alaska Peninsula), Sheveluch and Bezymianny (Kamchatka), Unzen (Japan), Ruapehu (New Zealand), Ojos del Salado (Chile), Kilauea (Hawaii), Arenal, Irazu, and Poas (Costa Rica) and Galeras (Columbia).

December 1993
Atka Island and Kanaga (Aleutian Islands), Lascar (Chile), Sheveluch and Bezymianny (Kamchatka), Unzen, Sakura-jima and Sunanose-jima (Japan), White Island and Ruapehu (New Zealand), Rabaul, Manam, Langila, and Uluwun (Pupua New Guinea), Merapi (Java, Indonesia), Langila (New Britian Island, Pupua New Guinea), Kliuchevskoi (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), and Galeras (Columbia).

January 1994
Juan de Fuca Ridge (Pacific), Kilauea (Hawaii), Manam (Pupua New Guinea), Sakura-jima and Unzen (Japan), Makushin and Veniaminof (Aleutian Islands), Langila and Rabaul (Pupua New Guinea), Bezymianny and Sheveluch (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), and Arenal, Irazu, and Poas (Costa Rica).

February 1994
Semeru (Java, Indonesia), Pinatubo (Philippines), Popocatepetl (Mexico), Kanaga (Aleutian Islands), Avachinsky and Sheveluch (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), Unzen and Sakura-jima (Japan), Pacaya (Guatemala), Shuh (Sumatra, Indonesia), Kanaga (Aleutian Islands), Taal (Philippines), and Ruapehu and White Island (New Zealand).

March 1994
Taal and Pinatubo (Philippines), Unzen (Japan), Kliuchevskoi and Sheveluch (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), Langila (New Britian Island, Pupua New Guinea), Sabancaya (Peru), Las Pilas (Nicaragua), Manam (Pupua New Guinea), Kanaga and Veniaminof (Aleutian Islands), Koryaksky (Kamchatka), Ruapehu (New Zealand), Merapi (Java, Indonesia), Gamalama (Indonesia), Stromboli (Aeolian Islands), Arenal, Rincon de la Vieja, and Poas (Costa Rica), Masaya and Santa Clara (Nicaragua), Colima (Mexico), and Anak Krakatau (Sunda Strait, Indonesia).

April 1994
Koryaksky, Kliuchevskoi, and Sheveluch (Kamchatka), Unzen and Sakura-jima (Japan), Ruapehu (New Zealand), Merapi (Java, Indonesia), Kilauea (Hawaii), Cleveland (Aleutian Islands), Langila, Rabaul and Ulawun (New Britian Island, Pupua New Guinea), Manam (north of New Guinea), Poas, Arenal, and Rincon de la Vieja, (Costa Rica), Popocatepetl (Mexico), Kanaga (Alaska Peninsula), Ruiz and Galeras (Columbia).

May 1994
Llaima and Cordon Calle (Chile), Popocatepetl and Pico de Orizaba (Mexico), Kanaga (Aleutian Islands), Veniaminof (Alaska Peninsula), Koryaksky and Kliuchevskoi (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), Cleveland (Aleutian Islands), Unzen and Sakura-jima (Japan), Rinjani (Indonesia), Rabaul and Ulawun (New Britian Island, Pupua New Guinea), Poas, Arenal, and Irazu, (Costa Rica),

June 1994
Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira (Zaire), Stromboli (Italy), Irazu, Poas, and Arenal (Costa Rica), Cerro Negro (Nicaragua), Popocatepetl and Colima (Mexico), Kilauea (Hawaii), Veniaminof (Alaska Peninsula), Kanaga and Cleveland (Aleutian Islands), Sheveluch and Kliuchevskoi (Kamchatka), Aso, Unzen, and Sakura-jima (Japan), Rinjani (Indonesia), Manam, Karkar, Langila, Rabaul, and Ulawun (Papua New Guinea).

July 1994
Telica, San Jacinto Hot Springs , Momotombo, and Masaya (Nicaragua), Poas and Arenal (Costa Rica), Nevado del Huila, Galeras, and Cumbal (Colombia), Lascar (Chile), Etna (Italy), Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo (Zaire), Ruapehu and White Island (New Zealand) Rabaul, Ulawun, Langila, and Manam (Papua New Guinea) Gamalama, Batur, Ijen, Semeru, Krakatau, and Marapi (Indonesia), Sakura-jima, Unzen, and Aso (Japan), Kanaga (Aleutian Islands), and Kilauea (Hawaii).

August 1994
Rabaul, Ulawun, Langila, and Manam (Papua New Guinea), Batur, Merapi, Soputan, Lokon-Empung, Mahawu (Indonesia), and Karangetang (Indonesia), Pinatubo (Philippines), Sakura-jima, Unzen, and Aso (Japan), Bezymianny, Kliuchevskoi, and Sheveluch (Kamchatka), Kilauea (Hawaii), Colima and Popocatepetl (Mexico), Galeras (Colombia), Llaima (Chile), and Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo (Zaire).

September 1994
Kliuchevskoi (Kamchatka), Aso, Unzen, and Sakura-jima (Japan), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea), White Island and Ruapehu (New Zealand), Ol Doinyo Lengai (Tanzania), Stromboli (Italy), Deception (Antarctica), Galeras (Colombia), Poas, Arenal, Rincon de la Vieja, and Miravalles (Costa Rica), Masaya, Cerro Negro, Telica, and San Cristobal (Nicaragua), Pacaya (Guatemala), Kilauea (Hawaii), Veniaminof (Alaska Peninsula), and Kanaga (Aleutian Islands).

For details of these eruptions and activities visit the Global Volcanism Homepage or Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Network, 1994, Summary of Recent Activity: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 56.

Steve Mattox, University of North Dakota 

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