VOLCANOES: 10 Most important interesting and researchable Facts About Volcanoes

10 Facts About Volcanoes 

Volcanoes are amongst the most powerful natural forces and the most spectacular we look at volcanoes in awe and are terrified by their unpredictability but volcanoes play such an essential role in life on earth even for those who have never stepped foot on one and our planet isn't the only one subject to their highly destructive but extremely important activity here are 10 interesting facts about volcanoes some of these facts you'll know and others may surprise you whatever the case volcanoes are amazing.

1. Let's begin with ash from volcanoes that can spark lightning commonly occur in sync with volcanic eruptions but how come as the ash from a volcano rises it builds static electricity the same way clouds do it interacts with the weather system which allows lightning to strike. 

2. 75 percent of volcanoes are in the ring of fire the pacific ring of fire is a string of volcanoes where the pacific ocean Seafloor is subducting under the continents it bringing water and causing volcanic eruptions from stratovolcanoes 75 of the world's volcanoes are at the ring of fire this includes the deadliest volcanoes in the united states japan and the Philippines Indonesia has is the most volcanically active country from the ring of fire.

3. Lava from volcanoes build new land volcanoes are areas inside the planet that makes their way to the surface they create new land like in Hawaii continents would be smaller if it wasn't.

4. For volcanoes the majority of the earth's surface is volcanic rock all ocean seafloor is created by basalt coming out at mid-ocean ridges for mauna loa is taller than mount everest it's a little-known fact that the mauna loa volcano in Hawaii is more elevated than mount everest this is because most of the mauna loa is below the ocean surface from sea level base to its summit it's 9170 meters in height that are 300 plus meters higher than mount everest mauna loa is also very active erupting 33 times since 1832

5. Volcanoes released water vapor for us to drink volcanoes created much of the water we drink and the air we breathe degassing is the process by that water exists inside the rocks that made up the earth itself because the earth's interior contains minerals with hydrogen and oxygen volcanoes continual to gas releasing h2o is water vapor 

6. Mount Olympus is the largest volcano in the solar system on mars the largest volcano is mount Olympus but not only on planet mars it's the largest the whole solar system mount olympus formed billions of years ago mars didn't have plate tectonics and it didn't have surface geology like earth but it did have a period of active degassing where huge amounts of gases like water and carbon dioxide ejected out the interior of mars 

7. Volcanoes can grow quickly although some volcanoes can take thousands of years to form others can grow overnight, for example, the cinder cone volcano per cabin appeared in a Mexican cornfield on February 20th, 1943. within a week it was five stories tall and by the end of a year it had grown to more than 336 meters tall it ended it's grown in 1952 at a height of 424 meters by geology standards that's pretty quick 

8. Mudflows lahars are deadly hazards at volcanoes lahars are deadly mudflows resulting from volcanoes they are capable of sweeping people to death and tearing down infrastructure according to USGS lahars caused the deaths of more than 44000 worldwide between 1600 to 2010 lahars among the most serious ground-based hazards at volcanoes. 

9. Temperatures can reach up to 1200 plus degrees c at volcanoes when volcanoes erupt lava pyroclastics and volcanic smog vog are among the most dangerous lava is molten hot rock temperatures reach up to 1200 plus degrees c then pyroclastics are deadly because they fast hot and poisonous this type of flow can travel at speeds up to 700 miles per hour finally vog is a form of air pollution mixing sulfur dioxide and other particles from volcanic eruptions 

10. The most distant point from the center of the earth is a volcano you might think that the peak of mount everest is the most distant point from the center of the earth but that's not true instead it's the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador that's because the earth is spinning in space and is flattened out points at the equator are further from the center of the earth than the poles and Chimborazo is very close to the earth's equator 

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