1998

Below is the Quake Watch extreme quake and volcano activity as of the beginning 1998.

An earthquake on January 9, 1998 in the Yellowstone National Park caldera caused the Vault and Cascade geysers to begin erupting, per Discovery Online.
On January 25, 1998, the Axial Seamount in the center of the Juan de Fuca Ridge 300 miles west of Oregon erupted, accompanied by an earthquake, per the NOAA.
Piton de la Fournaise, on Reunion in the Indian Ocean, erupted on March 12, 1998 after five years of dormancy, per the Volcano Listserve.
The USGS Earthquake report stated that a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near Balleny Islands Region south of Australia on March 24th.
On April 27, 1998, Mount Peuet Sague in Indonesia in the province of Aceh erupted, with the last eruption ending in 1921, per the Global Volcanism Network.
On May 3, 1998 an 7.9 quake occured near Taiwan, per the USGS.
On May 5, 1998 Arenal in Costa Rica erupted, per La Nacion, with the last eruption in 1993.
In June, 1998, 318 quakes events were recorded at Mount St. Helens, per the USGS.
On June 24, 1998, Iwate-san on the island of Honshu reawakened, per Tatsuro Chilba.
On June 30, 1998, Korovin in the Aleutian Islands erupted for the first time since 1987.
Papandayan in Java began activity again on July 1, 1998, per the Global News page. The last eruption was in 1942.
On August 21, 1998, the White Island volcanoe in New Zealand was put on an alert due to fumaroles and gas vents with temperatures of 463 C, per the Smithsonian.
Cerro Azul on the Galapagos Island in Ecuador reawakened on September 15, 1998, per the Smithsonian.
On October 27, 1998, the Nyamuragira in the Congo began producing lava again, per a CNN/Reuters report.
Associated Press reported on October 26, 1998 that the dormant volcanos on the Caribbean nation of Dominica are threatening to erupt, with 200 shallow tremors on a single day.
The USGS reported on November 29, 1998 that an 8.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in the Ceram Sea near Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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