Stratovolcanoes

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Visualize the scene: above the Aegean Sea, the war between the Giants and the Olympian Gods is raging. Poseidon, the god of the sea, is giving chase to a giant by the name of Polyvotis. When he finally catches up with him, near Kos in the south-east, he uses his trident to tear off a chunk of the island, which he then catapults on top of Polyvotis.

The most famous volcano in Greece is that of Santorini thanks to the majestic caldera – the largest in the world at 300 meters in height and with a diameter of 11 kms. However there are 39 volcanoes in regions around Greece, the country with one of the most well-known volcanic arcs worldwide.

Southern Chile was rocked by a volcanic explosion, leading authorities to sound to alarm, and the mayor of the township near the volcano calling for an immediate evacuation.

The awakened volcano is Villarica, one of South America’s most active volcanoes, near the city which bears the same name. The volcanic explosion ripped through the air with hot lava and ash.

At least 36 people are feared to have died after a Japanese volcano erupted without warning at the weekend but the search for victims was abandoned because of fears of rising levels of toxic gases

Thirty-one people were presumed dead near the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted a day earlier, catching hundreds of hikers unawares as it belched out clouds of rock and ash

Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said

An unexpected volcanic eruption at Mount Ontake could have left 30 people dead, reports suggest after lifeless bodies were founds near the peak.

A police spokesman at the Nagano prefecture has confirmed the individuals found by rescue teams are "in cardiac arrest", but an official medial examination is now required by authorities.

Lava cascaded down the Philippines' most active volcano on Sept. 17 as authorities rushed to evacuate thousands ahead of a possible deadly eruption.

An earthquake struck the region around Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano on Sept. 7 while fissures in the area continued to spew out lava but still none of the ash that could hamper airline traffic.