They would be classified as extinct. Volcanoes with recorded eruptions - but nothing 'recent' would be classed as dormant.
They would be classified as extinct. Volcanoes with recorded eruptions - but nothing 'recent' would be classed as dormant.
They would be classified as extinct. Volcanoes with recorded eruptions - but nothing 'recent' would be classed as dormant.
many times of historical eruption
Pliny the younger viewed the great Mt Versuvius eruption from a distance and was the first to write down and record a volcanic eruption
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a loud sound
we dont know because there is no record of the last eruption, which was 360,000 years ago
Geologists classify it as active, although the last eruption was in 1708.
complex stratovolcano
They would be classified as extinct. Volcanoes with recorded eruptions - but nothing 'recent' would be classed as dormant.
Volcanic eruptions are classified on the Volcanic Explosivity index, which is based on parameters such as the amount of material erupted and the height of the eruption column.
The loudest volcanic eruption on record was the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 in the Dutch East Indies, now called Indonesia. At the time it was a colony of the Netherlands.