Working volcano

Hello,

My friend lives on an Island with a working volcano and another one which is extinct.
I don't really know if I use it correctly when a volcano still lives.
Is it correct to say that is a working volcano? Maybe there is another of saying it that I don't know.

Thank you for your help.

VOLVER

It's an active volcano.

I believe "active"is the word you're looking for.

The more common description is "active".

The three states of volcanos as I am aware of are:

1. Active
2. Dormant
3. Extinct

Note: Some "extinct" volcanos have come back to life.

Crossed posts with Cyber.

Andygc said:

It's an active volcano.

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Greetings from the shadow of Mount St. Helens, an active volcano that dumped millions of tons of ash and killed 57 people in 1980.

I climbed the three "extinct" volcanos of Mexico in the 1980s (Popocateptl, Iztaccihuatl, and Pico de Orizaba); a few years later they were "active".

See: http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/volcano-mexico-alert-120421.htm

THE GIST - Popocatepetl is rumbling continuously, spewing gas and glowing rocks.


I believe the definition of "extinct" for volcanos means that it has been dormant for 100 + years. I will see if I can find that information.

A little search shows that my statement was completely wrong. See: http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/how-volcano-defined-being-active-dormant-or-extinct

Those definitions are not set in stone, and they mean different things to different people and to different volcanoes. One of the simpler ways to answer is that an active volcano is one that has erupted since the last ice age (i.e., in the past ~10,000 years). That is the definition of active used by the Global Volcanism Program in their catalogs. A dormant volcano would then be one that hasn’t erupted in the past 10,000 years, but which is expected to erupt again. An extinct volcano would be one that nobody expects to ever erupt again. These are human definitions of natural things – there have been a number of eruptions from “extinct” volcanoes!

Packard said:

Those definitions are not set in stone!

Is that an intentional pun? 👁 Smile :)


But, yes, the definitions mean different things to different people. See this Wiki page about Oregon's Mount Hood, which apparently had erupted three times in the last 1,800 years but apparently is classified as "dormant."