Recommended books about volcanoes

Updated: Nov 29, 2023 01:40 GMT - refresh

In this section, you find a growing list with some book recommendations; for more details on the book, you can click on the links and go directly to the page of Amazon, where you can also order them. Amazon has outstanding customer service, is fast, and has very competitive prices.
If you know of a book you would like to suggest, or send us a review, please drop us an email with a short description / review of your favorite book!

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Our favorites:

Volcano travel:

Introducing volcanology

Encyclodepia of volcanoes

Volcanism - Schmincke

Volcanoes - J. Durieux

Volcanoes - M. Krafft

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Volcano Photography

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Earthquakes 2016

Top 20 quakes in 2016
Several magnitude 7 quakes occurred in 2016 (but none above M8): Papua New Guinea, NZ, Ecuador, Solomon Islands, Sumatra, Chile, Alaska and others - nearly all major earthquakes were located near active subduction zones.
See the top 20 list of largest quakes in 2016 with this map.

Volcanic features

A selection of photos of different features: lava flows, lava fountains, lava lakes, fumaroles and more.

Erta Ale eruption

Overflowing lava lake 17 Jan 2017

Volcano Database

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