Volcano Data at NGDC

Halemaumau fountains and the lava lake on Kilauea's summit at night in 1967. Fountaining during the Kilauea Iki series reached heights of 575 m. (Photograph from Volcano Slide Site 1143-A11-033.)

Significant Volcanic Eruptions Database contains information for 400 volcanic eruptions incuding the latitude, longitude, elevation, type of volcano, and effects such as deaths, injuries and damage.

Volcano Location Database contains information for over 1500 volcanoes including information on the location, elevation, type and last known eruption (subset of the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program Volcano Database).

Volcano Images NGDC offers sets of images illustrating volcanoes and damage from volcanoes throughout the world.

Volcanic Ash Advisory Database contains Volcanic Ash Advisory messages and forecasts of ash location in the atmosphere issued by the NOAA Satellite Services Division from 1983 to 2003.

NGDC released two volcano posters:

• Shield Volcanoes of Hawaii, 2000
• Stratovolcanoes of the World, 2000

  and a Teachers Guide, 2000 for the Stratovolcanoes of the World Poster

Monitoring volcanoes with satellites:

• NOAA Satellite Services Division (Click on the Guagua Pichincha link to see images and movie loops of the eruptions on October 5 and 7, 1999.)
• NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Services Distribution
• NOAA Volcano Ash Advisory Center
• Alaska Volcano Observatory monitors Alaska's volcanoes with the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR).
• NASA Earth Observatory provides images of natural hazard events observed by NASA satellites.