What are some examples of active volcanoes?

Pacaya first erupted roughly 23,000 years ago, and was fairly active until around 1865. Then she blew her lid 100 years ago and has been consistently flaring ever since; to that end, there are now several lava rivers flowing through the surrounding hills. read more

List of active volcanoes includes volcanoes which are erupting, or have erupted in modern times. Many volcanos have erupted dozens of times in the past few thousand years, but are not erupting at this moment. Some scientists consider a volcano active if it has erupted in the holocene (historic times) period. read more

Currently there are some 1,500 active volcanos on the Earth, and located in many places, but typically on plate boundaries. Some volcanos, notably the Hawaiian ones are in the middle of the Pacific plate, but over a hotspot / mantle plume. read more

Some examples of extinct volcanoes include Aconcagua in Argentina, Mount Kenya in Kenya, Mount Ashitaka in Japan and Mount Buninyong in Australia. Extinct volcanoes have been inactive for a long period of time and are considered unlikely to erupt again. read more