Can mountains erupt like volcano?

Only some mountains are dormant volcanoes. Depending on the level of magmatic activity, tens of kilometers deep below them, some may erupt again. read more

A volcano is a specific kind of mountain. Only certain mountains are volcanoes, and volcanoes are (or rather, most are) mountains which have erupted, and sometimes are continuing to erupt, or may erupt in the future. Other kinds of mountains are not the kind which erupt. read more

Whether any will erupt soon, like Kilauea did in Hawaii on Thursday, is hard to tell until a few days or weeks in advance."It's really difficult to predict, because those volcanoes are relatively quiet until they start to activate an eruption," said Ben Edwards, a volcanologist and professor of earth sciences at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. read more

Volcanoes can erupt on flat land. It’s just that then it isn’t flat land anymore. And since the phenomena that leads to a volcano erupting typically results in the eruption of more than one, you are very unlikely to see a new volcano isolated on a flat plain. read more