Volcano Number

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The Volcano Number (also: Volcano Reference File Number, Volcano Numbering System, or VNUM) is a hierarchical geographical systematic system to uniquely identify and tag volcanoes and volcanic features on Earth.

The VNUM was developed by the Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World Project by IAVCEI in the late 1930s and is currently administered by the Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington (USA), under a mandate of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI, a sub-entity of IUGG), and in partnership with the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO, a comission of IAVCEI).

For an explanation of the system, see here.

[edit] See also

Template:VNUM This template is used to link Wikipedia articles to their counterparts in the extensive Smithsonian's database, which is considered one of the two global standards in volcano reference (the other being the World Organization of Volcano Observatories).

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• The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
• The Global Volcanism Program
• The World Organization of Volcano Observatories