Dormant volcanos are the volcanoes that are quiet, but might possibly erupt again.

A dormant
volcano is "sleeping," but it could awaken in the future. Dormant volcanos include those which
have not erupted in the past 10,000 years.

Some volcanoes may remain dormant for a long time; and an eruption is a surprise.

Before 79 AD, Vesuvius was considered dormant

Before 1991, the Pinatubo volcano in the Philippine was labeled as dormant.

Before 1995, the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat was dormant.

A dormant volcano is one that could still erupt but hasn’t for a long time. “How long is a long
time?” is a question without an ironclad answer, given that it’s not possible to know with
complete certainty that any volcano will never erupt again. The closest that scientists have come
to an official answer is that a dormant volcano is one that has not erupted within the last 10,000
years. That said, there are some volcanoes that have erupted more recently but are widely
considered to be dormant.

*Mount kilimanjaro,Tanzania, Africa

Mount Kilimanjaro is 19,335 feet tall, which makes it the highest volcano in Africa and one of the
highest in the world. Kilimanjaro is part of a chain of 20 volcanoes in what is known as the East
African Rift Valley. Kilimanjaro itself has three separate cones — Kibo, Shira, and Miwenzi. The
volcano’s last major eruption was 360,000 years ago.
*Mount Ararat, Turkey

Mount Ararat is in northeastern Turkey, very close to the Iranian and Armenian borders. Its
biggest claim to fame is that it’s the biblical site where Noah’s Ark came to rest. But it’s also a
major volcano—at just under 17,000 feet, the tallest in Turkey. Mount Ararat has erupted once
within the last 10,000 years, in 1840.
*Mount Fuji, Japan

Mount Fuji rises almost 20,000 feet from a flat plain. It’s one of the most famous volcanoes in
the world, along with a few others, like Vesuvius in Italy. Fuji, however, has had no eruptions on
the scale of Vesuvius’ in 79 CE, which buried the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and
killed about 16,000 people. Fuji has been dormant since 1707, and no one died in that eruption.

*Mount Pinatubo, Philippines