| Volcano Name | Location | Facts |
| Crater Lake | Oregon | Last erupted 6,600 years ago with 43,000x the force of an atomic bomb |
| Mt. St. Helens | Washington | Earthquake in 1980 triggered the largest landslide in American history |
| Mt. Rainier | Washington | Prehistoric lava flow flowed for 70 miles |
| Cotopaxi | Mexico | 1877 mud flow flowed 150 miles |
| Krakatoa | Indonesia | In 1883 eruption 36,000 died; 24 sq. mi blown to bits; eruption heard 3,000 miles away |
| Lassen Peak | California | Last eruption (1918) in the Cascade range before Mt. St. Helens |
| Mauna Loa | Hawaii | Largest volcano from sea floor up; 60 miles across at the base |
| Mt. Etna | Sicily | Constantly active; still creates craters regularly |
| Mt. Vesuvius | Italy | Buried Pompeii, a roman town, in 79 B.C. during Plinian eruption |
| Mt. Mayon | Philippines | Considered the most perfectly shaped stratro volcano |
| Merapi | Indonesia | Most active volcano in Indonesia; has had the most nuees ardentes than all other volcanoes |
| Thira (Santorini) | Greece | Volcanic island that has a volcanic-caldera bay, ancient eruption destroyed Minoan civilization on Crete by ash falls and tsunamis |